An edition of Light science for leisure hours
(1871)
Light science for leisure hours
a series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.
New ed.
by Richard A. Proctor
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Light science for leisure hours: a series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, etc.
1904, J. A. Hill and company
in English
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Light science for leisure hours.: Third series. Familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.
1886, Longman's, Green, and Co.
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Light science for leisure hours: a series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.
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Light science for leisure hours.: A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. &c.
1871, Longmans, Green, and co.
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Table of Contents
Strange discoveries respecting the aurora.
The earth a magnet.
Our chief time-piece losing time.
Encke the astronomer.
Venus on the sun's face.
Britain's coal cellars.
The secret of the North pole.
Is the Gulf Stream a myth?
Floods in Switzerland.
A great tidal wave.
Deep-sea dredgings.
The tunnel through Mont Cenis.
Tornadoes.
Vesuvius.
The earthquake in Peru.
The greatest sea-wave ever known.
The usefulness of earthquakes.
The forcing power of rain.
A shower of snow-crystals.
Long shots.
Influence of marriage on the death-rate
The topographical survey of India.
A ship attacked by a sword-fish.
The safety-lamp.
The dust we have to breathe.
Photographic ghosts.
The Oxford and Cambridge rowing styles.
Betting horse races: or, The state of the odds.
Squaring the circle.
A new theory of Achilles' shield.
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