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PROF. DERR is hard to please. He says that good handbooks of photographic manipulation are abundant, but they are apt to be unsatisfactory because their business is not to explain principles. Of complete treatises there are also not a few, but in them the thoughtful student is likely to be “overvhelmed with an avalanche of detail and history”; and monographs are too highly technical and “confined to such limited portions of the photographic field that the desired information generally lies in the gaps between them.” He has, therefore, endeavoured to prepare a volume that suffers from none of these disadvantages. He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the subject.
Photography for Students of Physics and Chemistry.
By Prof. Louis Derr. Pp. vii + 247. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1906.) Price 6s. net.
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J., C. Photography for College Students . Nature 75, vi–vii (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/0750via0
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