Now in course of publication, in small 8vo. each volume A SERIES OF ELEMENTARY WORKS ON MECHANICAL AND FORMING A SERIES OF TEXT-BOOKS OF SCIENCE ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF ARTISANS AND OF STUDENTS IN Edited by T. M. GOODEVE, M.A. Lecturer on Applied Mathematics at the Royal School of Mines, and formerly THE HE Reports of the Public Schools Commission Messrs. LONGMANS and Co. have accordingly 2 Text-Books of Science. use in Schools, and for the self-instruction of Working Men. These books are intended to serve for the use of practical men, as well as for exact instruction in the subjects of which they treat; and it is hoped that, while retaining that logical clearness and simple sequence of thought which are essential to the making of a good scientific treatise, the style and subject-matter will be found to be within the comprehension of working men, and suited to their wants. The books will not be mere manuals for immediate application, nor University text-books, in which mental training is the foremost object; but are meant to be practical treatises, sound and exact in their logic, and with every theory and every process reduced to the stage of direct and useful application, and illustrated by well-selected examples from familiar processes and facts. It is hoped that the publication of these books-in addition to other useful resultswill tend to the leading up of Artisans to become Candidates for the WHITWORTH SCHOLARSHIPS. A list of the books intended for early publication in the Elementary Series, including Five already published, will be found at the end of the present volume. Messrs. LONGMANS and Co. having secured the co-operation of some of the most eminent Professors of, and Writers on, the various branches of Science comprised in this Series, are enabled to indulge in the confident hope of producing a Series which shall combine practical utility with sound theory. London: LONGMANS and CO. Paternoster Row. 4 |