Natural Wonders
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Natural Wonders is by Edwin Tenney Brewster. The preface says that no small part of our fundamental knowledge concerning the world of nature has been put into shape for comprehension by children, time out of mind. The text supposes a boy who spends only half his spare time at games and devotes the other half to sports that are not games: he shall learn to ride a horse, to fish, to handle a sail boat, to swim, row, paddle, to climb mountains, to take care of himself in the woods, and above all to walk thru level country and enjoy the sight of all he sees.
The text says flies and ants and bugs and grasshoppers see only as we see things far round at the sides of our heads, and that a fly never could see to read, even if he could ever learn. A chapter headed More About Living Bricks says the largest of these living bricks is the yolk of an ostrich egg.
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- Author
- Edwin Tenney Brewster
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
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