Project Gutenberg 2013-01-13 Public domain in the USA. 164 Pepper, John Henry 1821 1900 Pepper, J. H. (John Henry) Pepper, Professor (John Henry) 32032940 The Boy's Playbook of Science Including the Various Manipulations and Arrangements of Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus Required for the Successful Performance of Scientific Experiments in Illustration of the Elementary Branches of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy The properties of matter: impenetrability -- Centrifugal force -- The science of astronomy -- Centre of gravity -- Specific gravity -- Attraction of cohesion -- Adhesive attraction -- Capillary attraction -- Crystallization -- Chemistry -- Chlorine, iodine, bromine, fluorine -- Carbon, boron, silicon, selenium, sulphur, phosphorus -- Frictional electricity -- Voltaic electricity -- Magnetism and electro-magnetism -- Electro-magnetic machines -- The electric telegraph -- Ruhmkorff's, Hearder's, and Bentley's coil apparatus -- Magneto-electricity -- Dia-magnetism -- Light, optics, and optical instruments -- The refraction of light -- Refracting optical instruments -- The absorption of light -- The inflection or diffraction of light -- The polarization of light -- Heat -- The steam-engine. Produced by Neville Allen, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Boy's Playbook of Science" by John Henry Pepper is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The book serves as a guide for young readers, providing a series of practical experiments designed to illustrate the fundamental principles of chemistry and natural philosophy. At the start of this work, the author outlines his inspiration for creating this playbook, referencing the joy and curiosity of young students who expressed a desire to understand the experiments they witnessed in lectures. He emphasizes the importance of scientific knowledge for personal growth and later success, while highlighting the book's overall aim to make scientific concepts accessible and engaging to young minds. The introduction sets the stage for a series of well-structured experiments that encourage critical thinking and hands-on learning, beginning with the properties of matter and various states of physical phenomena. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science -- Juvenile literature Q Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Science - General 1245770 1245780 2024-09-17T13:51:17.153807 2023-09-18T08:40:41.064107 text/html text/html 1208476 2021-01-25T12:44:21 text/html; charset=utf-8 4460718 2021-01-25T12:44:21 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 4552527 2024-09-17T13:51:54.131590 application/epub+zip 4570317 2024-09-17T13:51:29.362685 application/epub+zip 497128 2024-09-17T13:51:19.488767 application/epub+zip 16060384 2024-09-17T13:52:06.392591 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 15954309 2024-09-17T13:51:44.227630 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 716279 2022-09-19T06:59:59.550183 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1012190 1011986 2024-09-17T13:51:12.828761 2023-09-18T08:40:37.352983 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1011614 2013-01-13T14:31:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 358373 2013-01-13T14:33:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1012371 2013-01-13T14:33:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 358237 2013-01-13T14:33:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21252 2024-09-17T13:52:06.681492 application/rdf+xml 11393 2024-09-17T13:51:20.062726 image/jpeg 2826 2024-09-17T13:51:19.816743 image/jpeg 4496797 2024-09-17T13:51:18.031762 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia