Scientific dialogues
Subtitle: intended for the instruction and entertainment of young people: in which the first principles of natural and experimental philosophy are fully explained
By: by J. Joyce
Contributors: Cleghorn, John, active 1840-1880; Nixon, James Henry, approximately 1808-; T. Knight & Son
Edition: New ed., complete in one volume.
Series: Preservation and Access for American and British Children's Literature, 1850-1869 (NEH PA-23536-00); Historical children's literature, 1850-1869 -- r.8
Publisher: Knight and Son
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Physical sciences; Juvenile fiction; Physics; Astronomy; Scientific recreations
Other titles: Joyce's scientific dialogues.
Notes: Factual material on the physical sciences in a fictional framework.

Publisher's catalogue follows text and on endpapers.

Illustrations engraved by J. Cleghorn after J.H. Nixon.

University of Florida. George A. Smathers Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections. Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature P.O. Box 117007, Gainesville, FL 32611-7007.
Table of contents: title: Mechanics; title: Astronomy; title: Hydrostatics; title: Pneumatics; title: Optics; title: Magnetism; title: Electricity; title: Galvanism.