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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; ...
#39144 Book / Science
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Book in a slip case. Book has a brief essay on Giambattista della Porta and a facsimile of the English ...
#42645 Book / Science
Title page has: 'Objects, advantages, and pleasures of science. Mechanics. Hydrostatics. Hydraulics. Pneumatics. Heat. Optics. Double Refraction and Polarisation of ...
#39179 Book / Science
Contents: popular introductions to natural philosophy; Sir Isaac Newton's optics; a description of optical instruments; the thermometer and pyrometer; electricity; ...
#39180 Book / Science
Designed as a work for the general reader and as 'a text-book of physics for the upper classes of boys' ...
#39206 Book / Science
Biography of Victorian polymath Peter Mark Roget by Nick Rennison. Roget gave his name to the famous thesaurus but was ...
#31557 Book / Science
A biography of Roget, including a description of Roget's wheel (pp.184-6), and of his work on the kaleidoscope (p.121. Illustrated ...
#44507 Book / Science
Novel for children explains scientific principles. Information on colour and the spectrum, the thaumatrope (vol 3, 4-27). Illustrated with engravings ...
#42985 Book / Science
Novel for children explains scientific principles. Information on colour and the spectrum, the thaumatrope, phenakistiscope (268 - 296). Illustrated with ...
#42687 Book / Science
Sections on magnitude and minuteness; the atmosphere; thunder and lightning; terrestrial heat; meteoric stones; popular fallacies; weather prognostics; the thermometer; ...
#20929 Book / Science
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 ...
#39207 Book / Science
Translated and enlarged from "Les Recreations Scientifiques" of Gaston Tissandier". A large collection of scientific amusements (avoiding magic tricks), including ...
#46157 Book / Science
#42637 Book / Science
'Translated and enlarged from "Les Recreations Scientifiques" of Gaston Tissandier". A large collection of scientific amusements (avoiding magic tricks), including ...
#16128 Book / Science
Work originally composed by Jacques Ozanam before 1717; 'enlarged and improved' by Jean Etienne Montucla between 1763 and 1799 and ...
#29850 Book / Science
Second volume of an encyclopedia of science, containing articles on meteorology, natural history, physics and chemistry. There is an article ...
#39151 Book / Science
Based on Paris's 'Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest', a fiction containing scientific material and using some of the ...
#42682 Book / Science
'Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier'. 'Half hours of scientific amusement.' Experiments for the 'unskilled person'' using everyday materials. ...
#42492 Book / Science
Translation from the French of La Science Amusante by Tom Tit, with some new experiments. Sections on practical geometry; weight ...
#45225 Book / Science