Hamp, Sidford Frederick. Dale and Fraser, sheepmen. †$1.50. Wilde.
6–30460.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
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Hampson, W. Paradoxes of nature and science. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–163.
“In this, which may be perhaps regarded as the true type of ‘popular’ science book, Mr. Hampson explains, in language clear to the ordinary man the principle of the boomerang, of the gyroscope, of bird flight, of double vision, and of much else.... ‘Curiosities of freezing and melting,’ and his discourse on ‘Liquid air,’ on which, as a subject he has made his own, he is particularly lucid and informing.”—Ath.
“On one page we find him laying down that electricity is ‘a form of energy.’ This idea, which was popular in the seventies, may be said to have received its quietus at the hands of Prof. Silvanus Thompson. Except for this we have nothing but praise for Mr. Hampson’s book, which is excellent reading, and written with a sense of humour as unexpected as it is pleasant.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 776. D. 15. 320w. |