Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 1925
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Nature, Volume 115, Issue 2884, pp. 193 (1925).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
SIR JOSEPH HOOKER in 1869, in undertaking to review a book for a journal of science, made the following remark: ``I hope that ... will give us better analyses of books than reviews in general afford us. We have no end of reviews, but they are generally the author's views on the subject of the book to be reviewed and convey no precise information as to the books themselves. This is a crying evil''. The review by ``E. A. M''. in NATURE of January 10 of my book, ``Modern Astrophysics'', is a particularly good specimen of the type of review to which Hooker very properly took exception. The reader of this review who has not seen the book will have not the remotest idea of what I have tried to do, or of the intended (E. A. M. calls the book ``amorphous'') structure of the book as revealed, say, by the titles of its sections and chapters. Instead of this relevant and, one would have thought, indispensable matter, he is treated to a catalogue of E. A. M.'s misapprehensions of the subject and of his differences from me in matters of opinion.
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