NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. 23 



DR. LARDNER'S MUSEUM OF SG IENGE AND ART. 



THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. Edited by 

 DiONYsius Lardner, D.C.L.. formerly Professor of Nalural Philosophy and 

 Astronomy in University College, London. With upwards of 1,200 Engrav- 

 ings on Wood. In 6 Double Volumes, £1 is., in a new and elegant cloth bind- 

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Contents : 

 The rianets: Arc they Inhabited Worlds?— motive — Thermometer — New Planets: I-g- 

 ^^i-ather Prognostics — Popular Pallacies in verrier and Adams's Planet — Magnitude and 

 Questions of Physical Science— latitudes and Minuteness — Connnon Things: The Almanack 

 Longitudes — I-unar Influences — Meteoric — Optical Images — How to observe the Heavens 

 Stones and Shooting Stars— Railway Accidents — Common Things : The Looking-glass — 

 —Light— Common Things: Air — Locomotion Stellar Universe — The Tides— Colour — Com- 

 iii the United States— Cometary Influences— mon Things: Man— Magnifying Glasses— In- 

 Common Things : ^\■ater— The Potter's Art— stinct and Intelligence — The Solar Microscope 

 Common Things : I-ire — Locomotion and — The Camera Lucida — The M.agic Lantern — 

 Transport, their Influence and Progress— The The Camera Obscura— The Microscope — The 

 Moon — Common Things: The Earth — The ^^'hite Ants : Their Manners and Habits — The 

 IHectric Telegraph — Terrestrial Heat — The Surface of the Earth, or Eirst Notions of 

 •Sun- Earthquakes and \'o!canoes — Barometer, Geography — Science and Poetry — The Bee — 

 Safety Lamp, and AVhitworth's Micrometric Steam Navigation — Electro-Motive Power -^ 

 Apparatus — Steam — The Steam Engine — The Thunder, Lightning, and the Aurora Borealis 

 1- ye — The Atmosphere — Time — Common ' — The Printing Press— The Crust of the Earth 

 I'hings: Pumps — Common Things : Spectacles, i — Comets — The Stereoscope — The Pre- Ada- 

 tl"- Kaleidoscope — Clocks and Watches — | mite Elarth — Eclipses — Sound, 

 .'^licroscopic Drawing and Engraving — Loco- i 



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Common Things E.rj)lnine<l. Containing Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Time, 

 Man, the Eye, Locomotion, Colour, Clocks and Watches, &c. 233 Illus- 

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The Microscope. Containing Optical Images, Magnifying Glasses, Origin 

 and Description of the Microscope, Microscopic Objects, the Solar Micro- 

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P tpulav Geology, Containing Earthquakes and Volcanoes, the Crust of 

 the Earth, &c. 201 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. 



r,jpular Physics. Containing Magnitude and Minuteness, the Atmo- 

 sphere, Meteoric Stones, Popular Fallacies, Weather Prognostics, the 

 Thermometer, the Barometer, Sound, &c. 85 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2S. 6d. 



St 'ft m and its Uses. Including the Steani Engine the Locomotive, and 

 Steam Navigation. 89 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 25. 



P.tpnJar Astronomy. Containing How to observe the Heavens— The 

 Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets, Light, Comets, Eclipse?, Astronomical Influ- 

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The Bee and White Ants : Their Manners and Habits. With Illustra- 

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The Electric TelegrapJi Popularised. To render intelligible to all who 

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 forms of Telegraphy in Actual Operation. 100 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 



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