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Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:20189748
Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Science
ISBN : BSB:BSB11392797
Author : Richard A. Proctor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1330350235
Excerpt from Pleasant Ways in Science It is very necessary that all who desire to become really proficient in any department of science should follow the beaten track, toiling more or less painfully over the difficult parts of the high road which is their only trustworthy approach to the learning they desire to attain. But there are many who wish to learn about scientific discoveries without this special labour, for which some have, perhaps, little taste, while many have scant leisure. My purpose in the present work, as in my "Light Science for Leisure Hours," the "Myths and Marvels of Astronomy," the " Borderland of Science," and "Science Byways," has been to provide paths of easy access to the knowledge of some of the more interesting discoveries, researches, or inquiries of the science of the day. I wish it to be distinctly understood that my purpose is to interest rather than to instruct, in the strict sense of the word. But I may add that it seems to me even more necessary to be cautious, and accurate in such a work as the present than in advanced treatises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Richard a Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9357917438
Pleasant Ways in Science, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435075062737
Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781465614773
The most promising result of solar research since Kirchhoff in 1859 interpreted the dark lines of the sun’s spectrum has recently been announced from America. Interesting in itself, the discovery just made is doubly interesting in what it seems to promise in the future. Just as Kirchhoff’s great discovery, that a certain double dark line in the solar spectrum is due to the vapour of sodium in the sun’s atmosphere, was but the first of a long series of results which the spectroscopic analysis of the sun was to reveal, so the discovery just announced that a certain important gas—the oxygen present in our air and the chief chemical constituent of water—shows its presence in the sun by bright lines instead of dark, will in all probability turn out to be but the firstfruits of a new method of examining the solar spectrum. As its author, Dr. Henry Draper, of New York, remarks, further investigation in the direction he has pursued will lead to the discovery of other elements in the sun, but it was not “proper to conceal, for the sake of personal advantage, the principle on which such researches are to be conducted.” It may well happen, though I anticipate otherwise, that by thus at once describing his method of observation, Dr. Draper may enable others to add to the list of known solar elements some which yet remain to be detected; but if Dr. Draper should thus have added but one element to that list, he will ever be regarded as the physicist to whose acumen the method was due by which all were detected, and to whom, therefore, the chief credit of their discovery must certainly be attributed. I propose briefly to consider the circumstances which preceded the great discovery which it is now my pleasing duty to describe, in order that the reader may the more readily follow the remarks by which I shall endeavour to indicate some of the results which seem to follow from the discovery, as well as the line along which, in my opinion, the new method may most hopefully be followed.
Author : Michael D. Gordin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226000329
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
Author : Oakland Free Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4163699
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Natural history
ISBN : CHI:095500362
Author : Indiana State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : UIUC:30112113407669
Author : Sir William Augustus Tilden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UCAL:$B263626
Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UIUC:30112084973731
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112003245401
Author : Samuel Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6SAD
Author : Enoch Pratt Free Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268245
