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Christmas at the Royal Institution : an anthology of lectures /
Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children. Initially made accessible in book form, t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The correlation of the physical forces / r Michael Faraday
- carbon or charcoal-coal gas-respiration and its analogy to the burning of a candle-conclusion /r Michael Faraday
- The forms of water in clouds and rivers, ice and glaciers /r John Tyndall
- Lessons in electricity / r John Tyndall
- Stars / r Robert Stawell Ball
- Rontgen light / r Silvanus Phillips Thompson
- The great extinct reptiles-dinosaurs from the Oolites-the Pariasaurus and Inostransevia from the Trias of North Russia and South Africa--Marine Reptiles /r Edwin Ray Lankester
- The Atoms of which things are made / r William Henry Bragg
- Our electrical supply / r William Lawrence Bragg
- Objects and pictures / r Richard Langton Gregory
- Gallery of Monsters /r Ian Stewart.