The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1905 - 266 páginas |
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air-atoms ammonia animals anthers atoms beautiful become blow body Botzen called carbon carbonic acid carried cells clouds coal cold colours comes coral corolla crystals curious drop dust earth easily fairy fairy-land of science fall flower glacier glass goes green grow hear heat heat-waves hive hole honey imagine inch insects invisible invisible waves John Herschel knob land leaves lecture Lepidodendrons light living look melt mercury miles move nitrogen oxygen particles pass phosphorus picture piece plantlet plants pollen pollen-dust pollen-grain pollinia pressed primrose protoplasm rain rain-drops rays rise river rock roots round seeds side Sigillaria snow sound sound-waves space stamens stem sticky stigma stones substance sun-waves sunbeams surface tell things tiny trees tube underclay valleys vapour wall waves weight wind wonderful
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Página 148 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 191 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 5 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 246 - ... for children and young persons, may be most advantageously read by many persons of riper age, and may serve to implant in their minds a fuller and clearer conception of ' the promises, the achievements, and the claims of science.
Página 13 - How are you to enter the fairy-land of science? There is but one way. Like the knight or peasant in the fairy tales, you must open your eyes. There is no lack of objects, everything around you will tell some history if touched with the fairy wand of imagination. I have often thought, when seeing some sickly child drawn along the street, lying on its back while other children romp and play, how much happiness might be given to sick children at home or in hospitals, if only they were told the stories...
Página 246 - A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery, From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time.
Página 243 - Systematically arranged, clearly written, and admirably illustrated, showing no less than 760 engravings on wood and three colored plates, it forms a model work for a class of experimental physics. Far from losing in its English dress any of the qualities of matter or style which distinguished it in its original form, it may be said to have gained in the able hands of Professor Everett, both by way of arrangement and of incorporation of fresh matter, without parting in the translation with any of...
Página 200 - ... this is the closest shape into which they can be compressed. Although the bee does not know this, yet as she gnaws away every bit of wax that can be spared she brings the holes into this shape. As soon as one comb is finished, the bees begin another by the side of it, leaving a narrow lane between, just broad enough for two bees to pass back to back as they crawl along, and so the work goes on till the hive is full of combs. As soon, however, as a length of about five or six inches of the first...
Página 246 - Deserves to take a permanent place in the literature of youth." — London Times. " So interesting that, having once opened the book, we do not know how to leave off reading.
Página 42 - The red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, and 10 violet waves are all useful to the leaf, and it does not let them go again. But it can not absorb the green waves, and so it throws them back ; and they travel to your eye, and make you see a green color. So, when you say a leaf is green, you mean that the leaf does not want the green...