Transcriber’s Note
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SCIENCE
IN
Short Chapters.
BY
W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS, F.R.A.S., F.C.S.
AUTHOR OF
“The Fuel of the Sun,” “Through Norway with a Knapsack,”
“A Simple Treatise on Heat,” etc.
New York:
JOHN B. ALDEN, Publisher.
1883.
PREFACE.
I am not aware that this reprint of some of my scattered notes and essays demands any apology.
The practice of making such collections and selections by the author himself has now become very general, and is much better done thus than by friends after his death.
Besides this, it supplies a growing want of these busy times, when so many of us are prevented by the struggles of business from sitting down to the consecutive systematic study of a formal treatise.