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Pleasant Ways in Science
Richard Anthony Proctor
A master of popular astronomy makes the heavens easy company. Proctor gathers essays on oxygen in the sun, the strange link between sun-spots, storms, and famine, new ways of measuring the sun's distance, and the drift of stars across the sky. Wide-ranging, readable science from a gifted explainer. Take a relaxed walk through the wonders overhead.
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25 chapters
- 1PLEASANT WAYS IN SCIENCE.
- 2WORKS BY RICHARD A. PROCTOR.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4PREFACE.
- 5PLEASANT WAYS IN SCIENCE.
- 6OXYGEN IN THE SUN.
- 7SUN-SPOT, STORM, AND FAMINE.
- 8NEW WAYS OF MEASURING THE SUN’S DISTANCE.
- 9DRIFTING LIGHT-WAVES.
- 10THE NEW STAR WHICH FADED INTO STAR-MIST.
- 11STAR-GROUPING, STAR-DRIFT, AND STAR-MIST. A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution on May 6, 1870.
- 12MALLET’S THEORY OF VOLCANOES.
- 13TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE.
- 14A MIGHTY SEA-WAVE.
- 15STRANGE SEA CREATURES.
- 16ON SOME MARVELS IN TELEGRAPHY.
- 17THE PHONOGRAPH, OR VOICE-RECORDER.
- 18THE GORILLA AND OTHER APES.
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