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Light Science for Leisure Hours
Introduction
简介： The brilliant streamers of coloured light which wave at certain seasons over the heavens have long since been recognised as among the most singular and impressive of all the phenomena which the skies present to our view. There is something surpassing...
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1.
STRANGE DISCOVERIES RESPECTING THE AURORA.
2.
THE EARTH A MAGNET.
3.
OUR CHIEF TIME-PIECE LOSING TIME.
4.
ENCKE THE ASTRONOMER.
5.
VENUS ON THE SUN’S FACE.
6.
BRITAIN’S COAL CELLARS.
7.
THE SECRET OF THE NORTH POLE.
8.
IS THE GULF STREAM A MYTH.
9.
FLOODS IN SWITZERLAND.
10.
A GREAT TIDAL WAVE.
11.
DEEP-SEA DREDGINGS.
12.
THE TUNNEL THROUGH MONT CENIS.
13.
TORNADOES.
14.
VESUVIUS.
15.
THE EARTHQUAKE IN PERU.
16.
THE GREATEST SEA-WAVE EVER KNOWN.
17.
THE USEFULNESS OF EARTHQUAKES.
18.
THE FORCING POWER OF RAIN.
19.
A SHOWER OF SNOW-CRYSTALS.
20.
LONG SHOTS.
21.
INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE ON THE DEATH-RATE.
22.
THE TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF INDIA.
23.
A SHIP ATTACKED BY A SWORD-FISH.
24.
THE SAFETY-LAMP.
25.
THE DUST WE HAVE TO BREATHE.
26.
PHOTOGRAPHIC GHOSTS.
27.
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ROWING STYLES.
28.
BETTING ON HORSE RACES: OR, THE STATE OF THE ODDS.
29.
SQUARING THE CIRCLE.
30.
A NEW THEORY OF ACHILLES’ SHIELD.