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Biography of Newton putting him into his intellectual context, aimed at lay readers, and well illustrated with figures and portraits.
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Introduction on superstition and magic; the eye and optical illusion; mirrors, the magic lantern and phantasmagoria; miscellaneous optical illusions; marvellous ...
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Book aims to make available to teachers the full resources of the magic lantern for the purposes of science teaching. ...
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Children's book offers explanations and experiments on light, using shadow play; making a pinhole camera; a periscope; kaleidoscope; bending light; ...
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Book aimed at boys tracing the development of famous male inventors. Subjects are Alexander Graham Bell; Edison; William Friese-Greene and ...
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The story of invention and discovery vividly described and illuminated. Traces the development of 29 inventions or discoveries. They are ...
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Children's book expalining the solar system; cinema projection including 3D and cinemascope; the atom; artificial materials; the physics of rockets; ...
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Title page has: 'Objects, advantages, and pleasures of science. Mechanics. Hydrostatics. Hydraulics. Pneumatics. Heat. Optics. Double Refraction and Polarisation of ...
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Contents: popular introductions to natural philosophy; Sir Isaac Newton's optics; a description of optical instruments; the thermometer and pyrometer; electricity; ...
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Designed as a work for the general reader and as 'a text-book of physics for the upper classes of boys' ...
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Biography of Victorian polymath Peter Mark Roget by Nick Rennison. Roget gave his name to the famous thesaurus but was ...
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A biography of Roget, including a description of Roget's wheel (pp.184-6), and of his work on the kaleidoscope (p.121. Illustrated ...
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Novel for children explains scientific principles. Information on colour and the spectrum, the thaumatrope (vol 3, 4-27). Illustrated with engravings ...
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Novel for children explains scientific principles. Information on colour and the spectrum, the thaumatrope, phenakistiscope (268 - 296). Illustrated with ...
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Sections on magnitude and minuteness; the atmosphere; thunder and lightning; terrestrial heat; meteoric stones; popular fallacies; weather prognostics; the thermometer; ...
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Everyday scientific experiments for a lay audience. Experiments on electricity; heat; light (including shadows and refraction, silhouettes, illusions like the ...
#45300 Book / Science
Book aimed at teaching general reader science through experiments rather than theory has sections on electricity; heat; light (including the ...
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