Familiar lectures on scientific subjects
By: By Sir John F.W. Herschel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1872
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Science
Table of contents: title: About volcanos and earthquakes; title: The sun; title: On comets; title: The weather and weather prophets; title: Celestial measurings and weighings; title: On light: pt. I. Reflexion, refraction, dispersion, colour, absorption. Pt. II. Theories of light, interferences, diffraction. pt. III. Double refraction, polarization; title: On sensorial vision; title: The yard, the pendulum, and the metre; title: On atoms; title: A dialogue; title: On the origin of force; title: On the absorption of light by coloured media, viewed in connextion with the undulatory theory; title: On the estimation of skill in targe shooting.