The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers
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The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers is by John Tyndall, with twenty-five illustrations drawn and engraved under the direction of the author. A preface at the front says the tendency of careless and unscrupulous book-makers to cater to public ignorance and love of the marvellous has cast discredit upon the idea of popular science.
A preface to the fourth edition quotes a report that the Managers had engaged Mr. Wallis to deliver a course of lectures on Astronomy, adapted to a juvenile auditory. The preface says Faraday’s holding aloof was but temporary, for at Christmas 1827 we find him giving a “Course of Six Elementary Lectures on Chemistry, adapted to a Juvenile Auditory.” The text names the Morteratsch glacier, the end of which is a short hour’s walk from the village of Pontresina, and says that in the summer of 1864 Mr. Hirst and the author set out three lines of stakes across the glacier. The text says the surfaces along which the rock cleaves are called its planes of cleavage.
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- Author
- John Tyndall
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 98
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
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