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1871
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Appleton
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Light science for leisure hours: a series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, etc.
1904, J. A. Hill and company
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Light science for leisure hours: a series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.
1886, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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Light science for leisure hours.: Third series. Familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.
1886, Longman's, Green, and Co.
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Light science for leisure hours.: A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. &c.
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Table of Contents
Strange 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.
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