Author: Grant Shepherd
Publisher: Acls History E-Book Project
ISBN: 9781597405843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Silver Magnet
Author: Grant Shepherd
Publisher: Acls History E-Book Project
ISBN: 9781597405843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: Acls History E-Book Project
ISBN: 9781597405843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
De Magnete
Author: William Gilbert
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486163016
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
From the first great experimental scientist: the classic text, first published in Latin in 1600. Summarizes then-current knowledge of magnetism and electricity, offering insights into the origins of modern science.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486163016
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
From the first great experimental scientist: the classic text, first published in Latin in 1600. Summarizes then-current knowledge of magnetism and electricity, offering insights into the origins of modern science.
The Silver Magnet
Author: Grant Shepherd
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Revelations in Air
Author: Jude Stewart
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143135996
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the maitre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory—and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. —Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells--the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain--few of us understand how and why we smell. In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells—from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books—using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. With an engaging colorful design and exercises for readers to refine their own skills, Revelations in Air goes beyond science or history or chemistry--it's a doorway into the surprising, pleasurable, and unfamiliar landscape of smell.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143135996
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the maitre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory—and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. —Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells--the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain--few of us understand how and why we smell. In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells—from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books—using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. With an engaging colorful design and exercises for readers to refine their own skills, Revelations in Air goes beyond science or history or chemistry--it's a doorway into the surprising, pleasurable, and unfamiliar landscape of smell.
History of Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians
Author: Carl Lumholtz
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The two classic historical texts on the Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The two classic historical texts on the Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians.
The Spinning Magnet
Author: Alanna Mitchell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101985186
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting power Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you think about our planet. Award-winning journalist Alanna Mitchell's science storytelling introduce intriguing characters--from the thirteenth-century French investigations into magnetism and the Victorian-era discover that electricity and magnetism emerge from the same fundamental force to the latest research. No one has ever told so eloquently how the Earth itself came to be seen as a magnet, spinning in space with two poles, and that those poles have dramatically reversed many time, often coinciding with mass extinctions. The most recent reversal was 780,000 years ago. Mitchell explores indications that the Earth's magnetic force field is decaying faster than previously thought. When the poles switch, a process that takes many years, the Earth is unprotected from solar radiation storms that would, among other disturbances, wipe out much and possible all of our electromagnetic technology. Navigation for all kinds of animals is disrupted without a stable, magnetic North Pole. But can you imagine no satellites, no Internet, no smartphones--maybe no power grids at all? Alanna Mitchell offers a beautifully crafted narrative history of surprising ideas and science, illuminating invisible parts of our own planet that are constantly changing around us.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101985186
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting power Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you think about our planet. Award-winning journalist Alanna Mitchell's science storytelling introduce intriguing characters--from the thirteenth-century French investigations into magnetism and the Victorian-era discover that electricity and magnetism emerge from the same fundamental force to the latest research. No one has ever told so eloquently how the Earth itself came to be seen as a magnet, spinning in space with two poles, and that those poles have dramatically reversed many time, often coinciding with mass extinctions. The most recent reversal was 780,000 years ago. Mitchell explores indications that the Earth's magnetic force field is decaying faster than previously thought. When the poles switch, a process that takes many years, the Earth is unprotected from solar radiation storms that would, among other disturbances, wipe out much and possible all of our electromagnetic technology. Navigation for all kinds of animals is disrupted without a stable, magnetic North Pole. But can you imagine no satellites, no Internet, no smartphones--maybe no power grids at all? Alanna Mitchell offers a beautifully crafted narrative history of surprising ideas and science, illuminating invisible parts of our own planet that are constantly changing around us.
The Electrician
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Heat a Mode of Motion
Author: John Tyndall
Publisher:
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Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Publisher:
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Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Heat
Author: John Tyndall
Publisher:
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Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
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Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Journal of the Chemical Society
Author: Chemical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
"Titles of chemical papers in British and foreign journals" included in Quarterly journal, v. 1-12.
Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
"Titles of chemical papers in British and foreign journals" included in Quarterly journal, v. 1-12.