Excerpt from Properties of Matter
In the present edition this Treatise has been carefully revised and considerably extended: - special attention having been paid to passages where a difficulty had been found.
For one of the most important additions I am indebted to M. Amagat, who has very kindly enabled me to avail myself of some of his splendid but hitherto unpublished results. These relate to the compression of fluids exposed to enormous pressures; and, when published entire, will form a singularly interesting and practically new branch of the subject.
To some of the scientific critics of the first edition I am indebted for suggestions of real value, and I have endeavoured to profit by them. I must except, however, those which concern my treatment of the subject of Force. I have seen so much mischief done by this quasi-personification of a mere sense-impression that, even in an elementary book, I am constrained to protest against it.
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