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Practical Dietary for Families, Schools, and the Labouring Classes Edward Smith No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 275 - Whether we consider the liberality and beauty of the illustrations, the charm of the writing, or the durable interest of the matter, we must express our belief that there is hardly to be found among...
Page 275 - CONTENTS:— The Planets; are they inhabited Worlds? Weather Prognostics. Popular Fallacies in Questions of Physical Science. Latitudes and Longitudes. Lunar Influences. Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars. Railway Accidents. Light. Common Things. — Air. Locomotion in the United States.
Page 270 - Containing : Air — Earth — Fire— Water— Time — The Almanack — Clocks and Watches — Spectacles —Colour — Kaleidoscope — Pumps — Man — The Eye — The Printing Press— The Potter's Art — Locomotion and Transport — The Surface of the Earth, or First Notions of Geography. (From the "Museum of Science and Art.") With 233 Illustrations.
Page 274 - In clear and precise terms, general notions of all the principal divisions of Physical Science."— British Quarterly Review. ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY FOR SCHOOLS. By Dr. LARDNER. With 190 Illustrations. Second Edition. One Vol., 35. 6d. cloth. " Clearly written, well arranged, and excellently illustrated.
Page 270 - Stellar Universe — The Tides — Colour — Common Things: Man — Magnifying Glasses — Instinct and Intelligence — The Solar Microscope— The Camera Lucida — The Magic Lantern — The Camera Obscura — The Microscope — The White Ants : their Manners and Habits— The Surface of the Earth, or First Notions of Geography — Science and Poetry — The Bee — Steam Navigation — Electro-Motive Power — Thunder, Lightning, and the Aurora Borealis — The Printing Press — The Crust of...
Page 276 - POPULAR PHYSICS. Containing Magnitude and Minuteness, the Atmosphere, Meteoric Stones, Popular Fallacies, Weather Prognostics, the Thermometer, the Barometer, Sound, &c. 85 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2s.
Page 273 - Davy, Justus Liebig. To Lavoisier belongs the noble initiation of the work ; to Davy its splendid prosecution ; to Liebig, its glorious consummation. Embracing in his masterly induction the results of all foregone and contemporary investigation, and supplying its large defects by his own incomparable...
Page 8 - ... well magine that some were for use as hammers, with a supplejack or pliable stick twisted round, in the manner of the American Indians or Australians. They range from small specimens weighing only a few ounces to specimens weighing as much as three pounds. There is such a great variety in form that it is impossible to give more than a general idea of the different groups into which they may be arranged. Taking the plain grooved or notched natural stone as the lower end of the scale, we must place...
Page 272 - This work of Baron Liebig is one of those books from, which the mind desiring healthy philosophical instruction can receive it, in a most pleasant and yet most perfect form. There is no necessity for an acquaintance with all the intricacies of scientific nomenclature and terminology; with a moderate amount of chemical knowledge as a basis, no man of ordinary intellect will rise from the perusal of these Letters without the feeling that ho has partaken of a wholesome intellectual feast.
Page 270 - Things. — Fire. Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress. The Moon. Common Things.— The Earth. The Electric Telegraph. Terrestrial Heat. The Sun. Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth's Alicrometric Apparatus.