_Lardner’s Museum of Science and Art._ Complete in
12 Single Volumes, 18s., ornamental boards;
or 6 Double Ones, £1 1s., cl. lettered.
⁂ _Also, handsomely half-bound morocco, 6 volumes_, £1 11s. 6d.
CONTENTS:--The Planets; are they inhabited Worlds?
Weather Prognostics. Popular Fallacies in Questions
of Physical Science. Latitudes and Longitudes. Lunar
Influences. Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars. Railway
Accidents. Light. Common Things.--Air. Locomotion
in the United States. Cometary Influences. Common
Things.--Water. The Potter’s Art. Common Things.--Fire.
Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress.
The Moon. Common Things.--The Earth. The Electric
Telegraph. Terrestrial Heat. The Sun. Earthquakes and
Volcanoes. Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth’s
Micrometric Apparatus. Steam. The Steam Engine. The
Eye. The Atmosphere. Time. Common Things.--Pumps.
Common Things.--Spectacles--The Kaleidoscope. Clocks
and Watches. Microscopic Drawing and Engraving. The
Locomotive. Thermometer. New Planets.--Leverrier and
Adams’s Planet. Magnitude and Minuteness. Common
Things.--The Almanack. Optical Images. How to Observe
the Heavens. Common Things.--The Looking Glass. Stellar
Universe. The Tides. Colour. Common Things.--Man.
Magnifying Glasses. Instinct and Intelligence. The Solar
Microscope. The Camera Lucida. The Magic Lantern. The
Camera Obscura. The Microscope. The White Ants; their
Manners and Habits. The Surface of the Earth, or First
Notions of Geography. Science and Poetry. The Bee. Steam
Navigation. Electro-Motive Power. Thunder, Lightning,
and the Aurora Borealis. The Printing Press. The Crust
of the Earth. Comets. The Stereoscope. The Pre-Adamite
Earth. Eclipses. Sound.
_Lardner’s Animal Physics, or the Body and its Functions
familiarly Explained._ 520 Illustrations.
1 vol., small 8vo. 12s. 6d. cloth.
_Lardner’s Animal Physiology for Schools (chiefly taken
from the “Animal Physics”)._ 190 Illustrations.
12mo. 3s. 6d. cloth.
_Lardner’s Hand-Book of Mechanics._ 357 Illustrations.
1 vol., small 8vo., 5s.
_Lardner’s Hand-Book of Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and
Heat._ 292 Illustrations. 1 vol., small 8vo., 5s.
_Lardner’s Hand-Book of Optics._ 290 Illustrations.
1 vol., small 8vo., 5s.
_Lardner’s Hand-Book of Electricity, Magnetism, and
Acoustics._ 395 Illustrations. 1 vol., small 8vo. 5s.
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