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Popular Scientific Recreations

by Gaston Tissandier

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Introductory
  3. 3Chapter II — Science in the Open Air…
  4. 4Chapter III — Physics — The Meaning of Physics…
  5. 5Chapter IV — Some Properties of Solid Bodies — Inertia — Motion — F…
  6. 6Chapter V — Gases and Liquids — Pressure of the Air — Experiments
  7. 7Chapter VI — About Water — Hydrostatics and Hydraulics — Law of Arc…
  8. 8Chapter VII — Heat — What It Is — Theory of Heat — The Thermometer…
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Specific Heat — Fusion — Latent Heat — Conduction an…
  10. 10Chapter IX — Light and Its Sources — What Is Light? — Velocity of L…
  11. 11Chapter X — Vision and Optical Illusions — The Eye Described — Acco…
  12. 12Chapter XI — Optical Illusions — Zollner’s Designs — The Thaumatrop…
  13. 13Chapter XII — Optical Illusions Continued — Experiments — The Talki…
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Vision — The Eye…
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Spectral Illusions
  16. 16Chapter XV — Acoustics
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Acoustics (Continued)
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Tuning-Fork — The Syren — Sound Figures — Singin…
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Electricity
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Velocity of Electricity — Experiments — The Electric…
  21. 21Chapter XX — Galvanism
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Magnetism
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Sundry Electrical Appliances — Mr. Edison’s Inventio…
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Aeronautics
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Chemistry — Introduction
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Chemistry Without a Laboratory
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Chemistry and Alchemy — Chemical Combinations — The…
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Non-Metallic Elements
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Non-Metallic Elements (Continued)
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — The Metals
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Organic Chemistry
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Mineralogy and Crystallography
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — New Locomotive Appliances
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Astronomy
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — Angles and Measurement of Angles
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — The Solar System
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — The Sun
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — The Earth
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — The Moon
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — The Planets and Asteroids
  41. 41Chapter XL — The Fixed Stars
  42. 42Chapter XLI — The Stars — (Continued)
  43. 43Chapter XLII — New Astronomical Appliances
  44. 44Chapter XLIII — Physical Geography — I. Geology
  45. 45Chapter XLIV — Crust of the Earth — Geological Systems — Eozoic, Pr…
  46. 46Chapter XLV — The Mesozoic System — The Triassic, Oolitic, and Cret…
  47. 47Chapter XLVI — Physical Geography
  48. 48Chapter XLVII — The Sea and the Sky
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII — Physical Geography. Meteorology
  50. 50Chapter XLIX — Physical Geography. Meteorology (Continued)
  51. 51Chapter L — Physical Geography. Climatology
  52. 52Chapter LI — Biology. Part I. Botany
  53. 53Chapter LII — Flowering Plants
  54. 54Chapter LIII — Flowering Plants (Continued)
  55. 55Chapter LIV — Zoology
  56. 56Chapter LV — Echinodermata — Annulosa — Entozoa — Insecta
  57. 57Chapter LVI — The Analysis of Chance and Mathematical Games
  58. 58Chapter LVII — The Magic Top — The Gyroscope and Scientific Games
  59. 59Chapter LVIII — Scientific Objects for the Household
  60. 60Chapter LIX — Science and Domestic Economy
  61. 61Chapter LX — Some Curious Modes of Transit

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