- 1Epigraph — Bernstein’s — Popular Treatise on Natural Science
- 2Part I — The Weight of the Earth
- 3Chapter II — The attempt to weigh the earth
- 4Chapter III — Description of the experiment to weigh the earth
- 5Part II — Velocity
- 6Chapter II — How can the velocity of the electric current be ascert…
- 7Part III — Nutrition
- 8Chapter II — Man the transformed food
- 9Chapter III — What strange food we eat
- 10Chapter IV — How nature prepares our food
- 11Chapter V — What becomes of the mother’s milk after it has entered…
- 12Chapter VI — How the blood becomes the vital part of the body
- 13Chapter VII — Circulation of Matter
- 14Chapter VIII — Food
- 15Chapter IX — About Nourishment
- 16Part IV — Light and Distance
- 17Chapter II — Illumination of the Planets by the Sun
- 18Part V — The Wonders of Astronomy
- 19Chapter II — Main Support of Leverrier’s Discovery
- 20Chapter III — The great discovery
- 21Part VI — Meteorology
- 22Chapter II — Of the weather in summer and winter
- 23Chapter III — The currents of air and the weather
- 24Chapter IV — The firm rules of meteorology
- 25Chapter V — Air and water in their relations to weather
- 26Chapter VI — Fog, clouds, rain, and snow
- 27Chapter VII — How heat in the air becomes latent, and how it gets f…
- 28Chapter VIII — Latent Heat Produces Cold; Free Heat, Warmth
- 29Chapter IX — Rules about the weather, and disturbances of the same
- 30Chapter X — The changeableness of the weather with regard to our ge…
- 31Chapter XI — About the difficulty and possibility of determining th…
- 32Chapter XII — The false weather-prophets
- 33Chapter XIII — Has the moon influence upon the weather?
- 34Part VII — Our Articles of Food
- 35Chapter II — Digestion
- 36Chapter III — Coffee
- 37Chapter IV — Coffee as a medicine
- 38Chapter V — Usefulness and hurtfulness of coffee
- 39Chapter VI — Breakfast
- 40Chapter VII — Liquor
- 41Chapter VIII — Injuriousness of drinking liquor
- 42Chapter IX — The poor and the liquor
- 43Chapter X — The consequences of intemperance and its prevention
- 44Chapter XI — Dinner
- 45Chapter XII — Necessity for variety in food
- 46Chapter XIII — Broth
- 47Chapter XIV — What is best to be put into soup?
- 48Chapter XV — Leguminous vegetables
- 49Chapter XVI — Meat and vegetables
- 50Chapter XVII — The nap after dinner
- 51Chapter XVIII — Water and beer
- 52Chapter XIX — Supper
Popular Books on Natural Science
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