“The ideas are novel and easy to make, for the authors are thoroughly practical and actually make the things they describe.”
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=Beardsley, Rufus C.= Design and construction of hydroelectric plants; including a special treatment of the design of dams. *$5. McGraw pub.
“This work presents in a very thorough and practical manner the method of the design and construction of hydro-electric power plants, taking up in detail, in the order in which they are met by the practical engineer, most of those points which must be considered in designing or constructing a complete waterpower development. The purpose of the work seems to be to give to the designing engineer, in as short and as concise manner as possible the method in which the various problems are attacked, including under each topic most of the data and tables which he is required to use in connection therewith.”—Engin. N.
“Altogether the book will be found to contain much of value to the student and to teachers and will be a valuable addition to the engineer’s reference library.” A. W. M.
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=Beare, John Isaac.= Greek theories of elementary cognition, from Alcmæon to Aristotle. *$4.15. Oxford.
“This volume deals with the various theories entertained in regard to the five senses, sensation in general, and lastly the Sensus Communis, and its method is under each head to give as consistent a view as possible of what was severally taught by Alcmaeon, Empedocles, Democritus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Appollonia, Plato, and Aristotle.”—Nature.
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+ + − =Nature.= 75: 122. D. 6, ’06. 630w.
“The present volume should be of the greatest service not only to Greek scholars, but to all psychologists who take an interest in the history of their science.” A. E. Taylor.