Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the United States Artillery, 1897, Vol. 8: Published by Authority of the Staff of the Artillery School It will not suffice to use a high power microscope to translate In infinitesimal record. As in photography, the details in the Original cannot be improved upon in the enlarged reproduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.