Excerpt from The Scientific Class-Book, Vol. 2: Or, a Familiar Introduction of the Principles of Physical Science, for the Use of Schools and AcademiesThe same reasons which impelled us to undertake the adaptation of the first part of the Scientific Class Book to the use of schools and academics In the United States, has equally, or even more forcibly, urged the importance of performing the like task in regard to the present work. In several of the departments in cluded in this volume, we have hitherto been so far from possessing a good treatise adapted to schools, that we have, in fact, had no work in all respects eligible as a text book, even for the highest institutions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.