More Science from an Easy Chair
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More Science from an Easy Chair is by E. Ray Lankester. The text includes numbered figures with captions, and it moves between very different scientific subjects.
One passage explains how rock strata are thrown into folds by lateral pressure, with a diagram of the folding, and names the Alps and the Himalayas as regions where this has gone on. It says a rise of an inch in ten years would give more than 5,000 feet in 600,000 years, and describes folded strata between Basle and Milan. Another passage reports M. Bataillon's experiment with frogs, in which an egg develops after a prick of its surface without fertilisation. A third passage says men of science do not invent an aqueous principle to explain water, and that the author has yet to hear of a trained biologist who now maintains a vital principle.
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Book facts
- Author
- E. Ray Lankester
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 153
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online