| Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part02.utf8:18427704:1516 |
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001 04033158
003 DLC
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008 771213s1871 enk 00010 eng
010 $a 04033158 //r962
040 $aDLC$cWMaUCS$dDLC
050 00 $aQ171$b.P952
100 1 $aProctor, Richard A.$q(Richard Anthony),$d1837-1888.
245 10 $aLight science for leisure hours.$bA series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. &c.$cby Richard A. Proctor ...
260 $aLondon,$bLongmans, Green, and co.,$c1871.
300 $aviii, 316 p. 20 cm.
505 0 $aStrange discoveries respecting the aurora. -- The earth a magnet.--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.--Betting on horse races; or, The state of the odds.--Squaring the circle.--A new theory of Achilles' shield.
650 0 $aScience.