The boy's playbook of science
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書誌事項
The boy's playbook of science
（Popular science in the nineteenth century, . Science for children / edited and introduced by Aileen Fyfe ; v. 6）
Thoemmes Press , Edition Synapse, 2003
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860
"Thoemmes Press ... Science for children 7 volumes : ISBN 1843710218"--T.p. verso
"Edition Synapse ... Science for children 7 volumes : ISBN 4901481649"--T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Science for Children" is the first set in the series "Popular Science in the Nineteenth Century". The collection offers a picture of the scientific issues which most fascinated the 19th-century audience and demonstrates how science was portrayed as an appropriate form of entertainment for children, at the same time as providing knowledge. The works in this set illustrate the different strategies adopted by science writers to reach the audience of children. "Evenings at Home", written by a Unitarian brother and sister, is an example of the "instructive and amusing" style deployed by popular science writers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In Margaret Gatty's "Parables of Nature" the wonders of the natural world are portrayed as being God's creation. John Henry Pepper vividly demonstrates, through spectacular practical experiments, how exciting having knowledge of science can be. Arabella Buckley breathes life into the principles of scientific laws and forces by depicting them as part of a wondrous fairyland world. Some writers for children became very well known, and these represent the authors of the majority of volumes in this set. However, some of the most widely publi
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