Popular Scientific Recreations
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The title page presents scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology and chemistry, translated and enlarged from an earlier collection. The experiments with coloured rings describe conditions in which blue and yellow appear separately at the edges rather than as mixed colours. The instructions say that readers can construct most of the appliances described and obtain others from an optician.
The discussion of ocular estimation concerns illusions depending on the particular properties of the figures being examined. A sailing carriage is described as carrying sails on two masts, with about eighty-one square feet of canvas. The comparison says that an ice-boat travels fastest with the wind behind it, while the carriage makes best time with a sideways wind.
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- Gaston Tissandier
- Pages
- 1,026
- Language
- English
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- Popular Science
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