Project Gutenberg 2017-03-28 Public domain in the USA. 34 Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony) 1837 1888 Proctor, Richard Anthony Proctor, R. A. (Richard Anthony) Light Science for Leisure Hours A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. Strange discoveries respecting the aurora -- The earth a magnet -- Our chief time-piece losing time -- Encke the astronomer -- Venus on the sun's face -- Britain's coal cellars -- The secret of the North pole -- Is the Gulf Stream a myth? -- Floods in Switzerland -- A great tidal wave -- Deep-sea dredgings -- The tunnel through Mont Cenis -- Tornadoes -- Vesuvius -- The earthquake in Peru -- The greatest sea-wave ever known -- The usefulness of earthquakes -- The forcing power of rain -- A shower of snow-crystals -- Long shots -- Influence of marriage on the death-rate -- The topographical survey of India -- A ship attacked by a sword-fish -- The safety-lamp -- The dust we have to breathe -- Photographic ghosts -- The Oxford and Cambridge rowing styles -- Betting on horse races; or, The state of the odds -- Squaring the circle -- A new theory of Achilles' shield. Produced by Chris Curnow, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) en Science Q Text Browsing: Science - General 563831 563840 2024-08-22T13:17:27.223030 2023-09-23T11:36:28.434769 text/html text/html 560054 2017-03-28T15:23:56 text/html; charset=utf-8 279386 2017-03-28T15:23:58 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 310986 2024-08-22T13:17:34.282033 application/epub+zip 315744 2024-08-22T13:17:28.314024 application/epub+zip 281501 2024-08-22T13:17:27.776050 application/epub+zip 462967 2024-08-22T13:17:39.135995 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416240 2024-08-22T13:17:33.707007 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 382396 2022-09-24T19:47:41.408328 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 517373 517170 2024-08-22T13:17:26.478047 2023-09-23T11:36:27.699744 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 517729 2017-03-28T15:23:52 text/plain; charset=utf-8 185180 2017-03-28T15:23:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18945 2024-08-22T13:17:39.279961 application/rdf+xml 13442 2024-08-22T13:17:27.875033 image/jpeg 1882 2024-08-22T13:17:27.826011 image/jpeg 280213 2024-08-22T13:17:27.278055 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