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Volume 8 of a series which seems to have been published in parts first, as Lardner's Museum of Science nos. ...
#42681 Book / Science
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Appears to be volume two of two. Articles on natural history; psychic science; biology; chemistry; meteorology; ethnology; relativity; wireless telegraphy; ...
#16170 Book / Science
Part of a set: all subjects covered have already been noticed in earlier volumes. Subjects include: astronomy (including astronomical instruments); ...
#39189 Book / Science
'For upper classes', i.e. older children. Chapters on cinematography, including early optical devices and the application of photography to the ...
#42494 Book / Science
Book focusses on accounts of six key fieleds of invention in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: photography; flight; spectroscopy and ...
#29586 Book / Science
Chapters on inventions in prehistory; early civilisations; Greece and Rome; the Middle Ages; the Renaissance; the Industrial Revolution (including photography, ...
#11061 Book / Science
Children's book has chapters on how we see; candlepower and the fading of light; light waves; the speed of light; ...
#45298 Book / Science
Aimed at the general reader, book contains chapters on light and matter; mirrors; refraction; lenses; the microscope; the telescope; the ...
#45327 Book / Science
Information is grouped into sections: the story of the weather; the romance of exploration; the story of the nations (to ...
#36668 Book / Science
Translated from the French, and 'illustrated with seventy engravings on wood, and a coloured frontispiece.' Frontispiece missing in this copy. ...
#29831 Book / Science
Title continues: '(The Cornish apothecary's boy, who taught himself natural philosophy, and eventually became president of the Royal Society). The ...
#39214 Book / Science
Nineteenth century inventions grouped together in broad subject areas: transport; electricity; optics; telephone; miscellaneous. Each invention is given a contemporary ...
#29824 Book / Science
Sections on mathematical games; scientific toys including the gyroscope and slot machines; scientific objects for the household, including the chromograph ...
#42684 Book / Science
Appears to be a series of lectures in a religious context. Chapters deal with the nature of light (including persistence ...
#42691 Book / Science