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Translated and enlarged from "Les Recreations Scientifiques" of Gaston Tissandier". A large collection of scientific amusements (avoiding magic tricks), including ...
#42637 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
Contains articles on Eminent Astronomers; Hints to Workmen; The Guerilla, a Story of the Peninsular War; Speculative Manias; Four Months ...
#42677 Book / Science
Contains Life of Scott; Poor Joe; The Kidnapped Boy; The Conquest of Mexico; The Deserters; A Present to Apprentices; Life ...
#42678 Book / Science
Tracts in this volume (8) are The Life of William Hutton; Spectral Illusions (accounts for visions and ghosts as due ...
#42679 Book / Science
Tracts in Volume 9 entitled Life of Henry IV, King of France; A Story of the Factories, by Camilla Toulmin; ...
#42680 Book / Science
Volume 8 of a series which seems to have been published in parts first, as Lardner's Museum of Science nos. ...
#42681 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
Sections on mathematical games; scientific toys including the gyroscope and slot machines; scientific objects for the household, including the chromograph ...
#42684 Book / Science
Short, anecdotal articles on many inventions, including the first photographers (p.30); panoramas (p. 211); the thaumatrope (p. 243); the labours ...
#42685 Book / Science
Novel for children explains scientific principles. Information on colour and the spectrum, the thaumatrope, phenakistiscope (268 - 296). Illustrated with ...
#42687 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
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