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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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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
Novel for children explains scientific principles. Information on colour and the spectrum, the thaumatrope (vol 3, 4-27). Illustrated with engravings ...
#42985 Book / Science
Aimed at a young male readership, it describes the properties of matter; centrifugal force; astronomy; gravity; cohesion and adhesion; capillary ...
#42596 Book / Science
Aimed at boys, 'in illustration of the elementary branches of chemistry and natural philosophy.' Chapters on the properties of matter; ...
#42610 Book / Science
#42611 Book / Science
Aimed at an audience of boys, it describes the properties of matter; centrifugal force; astronomy; gravity; cohesion and adhesion; capillary ...
#42612 Book / Science
Translation from the German of Kolumbus-Eier, based on a larger German collection with the same title, first issued by the ...
#42488 Book / Science
A history of physics for the lay reader. Includes description of the magic lantern (pp. 40-41). There is a timeline ...
#42489 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
'For upper classes', i.e. older children. Chapters on cinematography, including early optical devices and the application of photography to the ...
#42494 Book / Science