"No other work in the English language contains such an extensive and succinct account of the different branches of physics or exhibits such a general knowledge of the whole field in so small a compass."
— Adolphe Quetelet

January 1, 1970

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Robert Wallace, Preface, Facts, Laws and Phenomena of Natural Philosophy, or a Summary of a Course in General Physics (1835) Wallace's English translation of Quetelet's Positions de physique ou résumé d' un cours de physique générale (1826)