The Victorian science writer W. Mattieu Williams collects his essays for busy readers who have no time for a formal treatise. Subjects range from the fuel of the sun and Siemens’s solar theory to the origin of lunar volcanoes, sun-spots and climate, the radiometer, the economics of coal and many questions of everyday chemistry and physics.
Clear, opinionated popular science that shows what educated Victorians were debating. Download the free EPUB.