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Endless Amusement
by AnonymousEndless Amusement is a collection of NEARLY 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science including acoustics, electricity, magnetism, arithmetic, hydraulics, mechanics, chemistry, hydrostatics, optics; wonders of the air-pump all the popular tricks and changes of the cards to which is added, a complete system of pyrotechny or the art..
The Science of Plant Life
by Norman TaylorThe Science of Plant Life is an illustrated edition and part of Popular Science Library book contributed by many authors and compiled by Norman Taylor. If you are looking to gather some fundamental information about the life of plants, then this book would be an useful read. Throughout the book, it has often been convenient to refer to plants..
The Exploration of the World
by Jules VerneJules Verne's non-fiction work The Exploration of the World is part of his Celebrated Travels and Travellers, with precise information covering the period in the World's history of exploration from B.C. 505 to the close of the 17th century...
The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
by Jules VerneThe Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century is second volume of Jules Verne non-fiction series Celebrated Travels and Travellers. Written in two parts, Part I details Astronomers and Cartographers, Voyages of 18th century, Captain Cook's Predecessors and three Voyages of Captain Cook. Part II details French,African, American and Asian explorers...
The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
by Jules VerneThe Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century is the third volume of Jules Verne non-fiction series Celebrated Travels and Travellers. Written in two parts with chapters titled as The Dawn of a Century of Discovery, The Exploration And Colonization Of Africa, The Oriental Scientific Movement And American Discoveries...
Are the Planets Inhabited?
by E. Walter MaunderThe first thought that men had concerning the heavenly bodies was an obvious one: they were lights. There was a greater light to rule the day; a lesser light to rule the night; and there were the stars also. In those days there seemed an immense difference between the earth upon which men stood, and the bright objects that shone down upon it from t..
A Field Book of the Stars
by William Tyler OlcottConsidering the ease with which a knowledge of the constellations can be acquired, it seems a remarkable fact that so few are conversant with these time-honored configurations of the heavens. Aside from a knowledge of "the Dipper" and "the Pleiades," the constellations to the vast majority, are utterly unknown.To facilitate and popularize if possib..
Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language
by Cecil G. DolmageThe object of this book is to give an account of the science of Astronomy, as it is known at the present day, in a manner acceptable to the general reader. It is too often supposed that it is impossible to acquire any useful knowledge of Astronomy without much laborious study, and without adventuring into quite a new world of thought. The reasoning..