Light science for leisure hours : familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.

Author(s)

• Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

Bibliographic Information

Light science for leisure hours : familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.

by Richard A. Proctor

Longmans, Green, 1898

5th ed

• 1st ser

Note

Description based on new impression reprinted from 5th ed., 1898

Contents of Works

• 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 on horse races; or, The state of the odds
• Squaring the circle
• A new theory of Achilles' shield

• NCID: BA44289401
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 314 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q171
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science