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100 10 $aProctor, Richard A.$q(Richard Anthony),$d1837-1888.
245 10 $aLight science for leisure hours.$bA series of familiar esays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c., &c.$cBy Richard A. Proctor ...
260 0 $aN.Y.$bAppleton,$c1871.
300 $aviii, 343 p.$c20cm. D.
505 $aStrange discoveries respecting the aurora.--The earth a maguet.--Our chief timepiece losing time.--Encke, the astronomer.--Venus on the sun's face.--Recent solar researches.--Government aid to science.--American alms for British science.--The secret of the North pole.--Is the Gulf Stream a myth?--Floods in Switzerland.--A great tidal wave.--Deep-sea dredgings.--The tunnel through Mont Cenis.--Tornadoes.--Vesuvius.--The earthquake in Peru.--The greatest sea-wave ever known.--The usefulness of earthquakes.--The forcing power of rain.--A shower of snow crystals.--Long shots.--Influence of marriage on the death-rate.--The topographical survey of India.--A ship attacked by a sword fish.--The safety-lamp.--The dust we have to breathe.--Photographic ghosts.--The Oxford and Cambridge rowing styles.--Beating on horse races; or, The state of the odds.--Squaring the circle.--A new theory of Achilles' shield.
650 0 $aScience.
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