Buy this book on-line Tyndall, John : Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and ReviewsD. Appleton and Company, New York, 1871
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 5 3/8" x 8." 422 pages, complete. Ten additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Former ownership signature in black ink on a front flyleaf. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Head of the spine has some chipping and the top corners of the covers are worn. John Tyndall (1820-1893) was an Irish physicist whose contributions to science include his study of diamagnetism and also that of infrared radiation and its relation to air, which helped prove the greenhouse effect in 1859. This book is a collection of essays. Tyndall writes in the Preface, "My motive in writing these papers was mainly that which prompted the publication of my Royal Institution lectures; a desire, namely, to extend sympathy for science beyond the limits of the scientific public. ... Most of the essays are of a purely scientific character, and from those which are not, I have endeavored, without veiling my convictions, to exclude every word that could cause needless irritation." The following are the essays: "The Constitution of Nature," "Thoughts on Prayer and Natural Law," "Miracles and Special Providences," "Matter and Force," "An Address to Students," "Scope and Limit of Scientific Materialism," "Scientific Use of the Imagination," "On Radiation," "On Radiant Heat in Relation to the Color and Chemical Constitution of Bodies," "On Chemical Rays and the Structure and Light of the Sky," "Dust and Disease; Addition to 'Dust and Disease,'" "Life and Letters of Faraday," "An Elementary Lecture on Magnetism," and "Shorter Articles: Slates; Death by Lightning; Science and Spirits; Vitality; Additional Remarks on Miracles.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Tyndall, John : Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Tyndall, John : FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE FOR UNSCIENTIFIC PEOPLE A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and ReviewsD. Appleton & Company, New York, 1873
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