Light science for leisure hours.
Subtitle: A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. &c.
By: by Richard A. Proctor ...
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co.
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Science.
Table of contents: title: Strange discoveries respecting the aurora.; title: The earth a magnet.; title: Our chief timepiece losing time.; title: Encke, the astronomer.; title: Venus on the sun's face.; title: Recent solar researches.; title: Government aid to science.; title: American alms for British science.; title: The secret of the North pole.; title: Is the Gulf Stream a myth?; title: Floods in Switzerland.; title: A great tidal wave.; title: Deep-sea dredgings.; title: The tunnel through Mont Cenis.; title: Tornadoes.; title: Vesuvius.; title: The earthquake in Peru.; title: The greatest sea-wave ever known.; title: The usefulness of earthquakes.; title: The forcing power of rain.; title: A shower of snow crystals.; title: Long shots.; title: Influence of marriage on the death-rate; title: The topographical survey of India.; title: A ship attacked by a sword-fish.; title: The safety-lamp.; title: The dust we have to breathe.; title: Photographic ghosts.; title: The Oxford and Cambridge rowing styles.; title: Betting on horse races; or, The state of the odds.; title: Squaring the circle.; title: A new theory of Achilles' shield.