A country family, their vicar and a learned friend, Mr. Seymour, turn the children’s games into lessons in natural philosophy. Kites, tops, windmills, marbles and balls become the means of explaining gravity, motion, the angle a sail should make with the wind and the other first principles of mechanics, all in lively conversation rather than dry exposition.
A charming early attempt to teach physics through play, by the physician John Ayrton Paris, first published in 1827. Download the free EPUB.