THE 



ROMANCE OF SCIENCE 



TIME AND TIDE: A Romance of the Moon 



By Sir ROBERT S. BALL, LL.D., F.R.S., Lowndean Professor ot 

 Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. Eleventh thousand 

 revised. Illustrated. Post 8vo, cloth boards, 2s. 6d. 



Nature says : ' ' The book is replete with information, and by the genera 

 scientific reader will be found exceedingly interesting." 



SPINNING TOPS 



By Professor JOHN PERRY, M.E., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. Reprint 

 of New and Revised Edition, with an Illustrated Appendix on the 

 Use of Gyrostats. Post 8vo, cloth boards, 2s, 6d, 



The Guardian says : " Professor Perry's little book is the first step into 

 a wide world, and we find in the boy's spinning top exactly the same forces 

 governing its behaviour as those which, without doubt, are the foundation 

 of our solar system." 



COAL ; and what we get from it 



By RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.S., F.I.C., Professor of Chemistry in 

 Finsbury Technical College, City and Guilds of London Institute. 

 Fifth thousand. With numerous Illustrations. Post 8vo, cloth 

 boards, 2s. 6d. 



The Glasgow -Herald says : "The most 'romantic' portion of the book 

 to the uninitiated reader is that treating of the dyes obtainable from coal 

 products. It is here that the romance is most striking, and the marvels 

 of chemistry put in their most remarkable aspect." 



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