Pleasant Ways in Science
by Richard A. Proctor
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About this eBook
- Author
- Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Q: Science
- Subject
- Science
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54376
- Release Date
- March 17, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PLEASANT WAYS IN SCIENCE. — WORKS BY RICHARD A. PROCTOR.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.PLEASANT WAYS IN SCIENCE. — OXYGEN IN THE SUN.
- 5.SUN-SPOT, STORM, AND FAMINE.
- 6.NEW WAYS OF MEASURING THE SUN’S DISTANCE.
- 7.DRIFTING LIGHT-WAVES.
- 8.THE NEW STAR WHICH FADED INTO STAR-MIST.
- 9.STAR-GROUPING, STAR-DRIFT, AND STAR-MIST. A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution on May 6, 1870.
- 10.MALLET’S THEORY OF VOLCANOES.
- 11.TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE.
- 12.A MIGHTY SEA-WAVE.
- 13.STRANGE SEA CREATURES.
- 14.ON SOME MARVELS IN TELEGRAPHY.
- 15.THE PHONOGRAPH, OR VOICE-RECORDER.
- 16.THE GORILLA AND OTHER APES.
- 17.THE USE AND ABUSE OF FOOD.
- 18.OZONE.
- 19.DEW.
- 20.THE LEVELLING POWER OF RAIN.
- 21.ANCIENT BABYLONIAN ASTROGONY.
- 22.FOOTNOTES
- 23.Transcriber’s Notes
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