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#43656 Book / Science
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#43694 Book / Science
Chapters on experiments with light (including the magic lantern); optical illusions; moving pictures (including thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope, kaleidoscope); experiments ...
#45224 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
Children's book has chapters on how we see; candlepower and the fading of light; light waves; the speed of light; ...
#45298 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 explains to its audience of boys [sic] the properties of matter; centrifugal force; astronomy; gravity; adhesion and cohesion; capillary ...
#45301 Book / Science
Sections cover methods of producing power; the machine industries; transportation and communication; military techniques; the construction and equipment of urban ...
#45310 Book / Science
Intends to give the principles of a wide variety of techniques and inventions. Chapters on the steam-engine; the conversion of ...
#45322 Book / Science
Intended for the general reader, chapters cover money-making (the mint); paper-making; match-making; building a piano; candles and soap; mineral-water; chinaware ...
#45323 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
Book written in reaction to change in school curriculum requiring individual experimental work by students. Experiments proposed are in mensuration; ...
#45342 Book / Science
Book describes for children the workings of mirrors; lenses; animals' eyes; telescopes and microscopes; prisms; photography; fluorescence; electron microscopy; radar. ...
#45167 Book / Science
Introduction; part 1, on the reflexion and refraction of light is divided into catoptrics (reflexion by specula or mirrors) and ...
#46141 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
Biography of Sir David Brewster by his daughter, and 'from a home point of view.' Includes descriptions of his work ...
#46175 Book / Science
Short biographies of Galileo, Brahe and Kepler, with some information on their optical work. With portraits.
#46176 Book / Science
Brief preface explains that book is aimed at the lay reader, offering a description of all the terms used in ...
#46194 Book / Science
Sections on light shows (including chinese shadow play, decoupage, silhouettes, kaleidoscope, anamorphosis, spectral figures, optical illusions, Newton's disc, phenakistiscope, zootrope,); ...
#46196 Book / Science
#42637 Book / Science