A NEW edition of Prof. Partington's “Text-book of Thermodynamics with special reference to Chemistry” (1913) has been desired for some time, and those who are familiar with that work will welcome it ...

The object of the author of this textbook is to provide a work of a less advanced and detailed nature than the classic volume of Lewis and Randall, and at the same time to clarify certain fundamental ...

Advanced science textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity, but a purported image showing the introductory sentences from one such work is downright gloomy: This chapter on ...