The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

Solar and Terrestrial Heat--Position of the Earth in the Solar System--Heat and Light associated in the Sunbeam--Transparency of Bodies to Heat--Heating Powers of the Coloured R...

Theories of the Nature of Light--Hypotheses of Newton and Huygens--Sources of Light--The Sun--Velocity of Light--Transparency--Dark Lines of the Spectrum--Absorption of Light--C...

Discovery of Electrical Force--Diffused through all Matter--What is Electricity?--Theories--Frictional Electricity--Conducting Power of Bodies--Hypothesis of two Fluids--Electri...

Water--Its Constituents--Oxygen--Hydrogen--Peroxide of Hydrogen--Physical Property of Water--Ice--Sea Water--Chlorine--Muriatic Acid--Iodine--Bromine--Compounds of Hydrogen with...

Magnetic Iron--Knowledge of, by the Ancients--Artificial Magnets--Electro-Magnets--Electro-Magnetism--Magneto- Electricity--Theories of Magnetism--The Magnetic Power of soft Iro...

The Changes produced on Physical Phenomena by the Movement of the Solar System considered--Exertion of the Physical Forces through the Celestial Spaces--The Balance of Powers--V...

The Sun-ray and its Powers--Darkening of Horn Silver--Niepce’s Discovery--Prismatic Spectrum--Refrangibility of Light, Heat, and Actinism--Daguerre’s Discovery--Photography--Che...

Psychology of Flowers--Progress of Matter towards Organization--Vital Force--Spontaneous Generation--The Vegetable Cell--Simplest Development of Organization--The Crystal and th...

Time, an element in Nature’s Operations--Geological Science--Its Facts and Inferences--Nebular Hypothesis applied--Primary Formations--Plutonic and Metamorphic Rocks--Transition...

Nature’s Chemistry--Changes produced by Chemical Combination--Atomic Constitution of Bodies--Laws of Combination--Combining Equivalents--Elective Affinity--Chemical Decompositio...

“A stone grows; plants grow and live; animals grow, live, and feel.” Such were the distinctions made by Linnæus, between the conditions of the three kingdoms of nature. We canno...

The Forms of Matter--Shape of the Earth--Probability of the Mass forming this Planet having existed in a Nebulous State--Zodiacal Lights--Comets--Volatilization of Solid Matter...

Conditions of Matter--Variety of organized Forms--Inorganic Forms--All matter reducible to the most simple conditions--Transmutation, a natural operation--Chemical Elementary Pr...

Are the Physical Forces modes of Motion?--Motion defined--Philosophical Views of Motion, and the Principles to which it has been referred--Motions of the Earth and of the Solar...

Crystallisation and Molecular Force distinguished--Experimental Proof--Polarity of Particles forming a Crystal--Difference between Organic and Inorganic Forms--Decomposition of...

The Changes produced on Physical Phenomena by the Movement of the Solar System considered--Exertion of the Physical Forces through the Celestial Spaces--The Balance of Powers--V...

Its varied Characters, and constant change of external Form--The Grain of Dust, its Properties and Powers--Combinations in inorganic Masses and in organized Creations--Our knowl...

Solar and Terrestrial Heat--Position of the Earth in the Solar System--Heat and Light associated in the Sunbeam--Transparency of Bodies to Heat--Heating Powers of the Coloured R...

Are the Physical Forces modes of Motion?--Motion defined--Philosophical Views of Motion, and the Principles to which it has been referred--Motions of the Earth and of the Solar...

The Forms of Matter--Shape of the Earth--Probability of the Mass forming this Planet having existed in a Nebulous State--Zodiacal Lights--Comets--Volatilization of Solid Matter...

The Sun-ray and its Powers--Darkening of Horn Silver--Niepce’s Discovery--Prismatic Spectrum--Refrangibility of Light, Heat, and Actinism--Daguerre’s Discovery--Photography--Che...

Psychology of Flowers--Progress of Matter towards Organization--Vital Force--Spontaneous Generation--The Vegetable Cell--Simplest Development of Organization--The Crystal and th...

Discovery of Electrical Force--Diffused through all Matter--What is Electricity?--Theories--Frictional Electricity--Conducting Power of Bodies--Hypothesis of two Fluids--Electri...

Its varied Characters, and constant change of external Form--The Grain of Dust, its Properties and Powers--Combinations in inorganic Masses and in organized Creations--Our knowl...

Conditions of Matter--Variety of organized Forms--Inorganic Forms--All matter reducible to the most simple conditions--Transmutation, a natural operation--Chemical Elementary Pr...

Crystallisation and Molecular Force distinguished--Experimental Proof--Polarity of Particles forming a Crystal--Difference between Organic and Inorganic Forms--Decomposition of...

Theories of the Nature of Light--Hypotheses of Newton and Huygens--Sources of Light--The Sun--Velocity of Light--Transparency--Dark Lines of the Spectrum--Absorption of Light--C...

Time, an element in Nature’s Operations--Geological Science--Its Facts and Inferences--Nebular Hypothesis applied--Primary Formations--Plutonic and Metamorphic Rocks--Transition...

Magnetic Iron--Knowledge of, by the Ancients--Artificial Magnets--Electro-Magnets--Electro-Magnetism--Magneto- Electricity--Theories of Magnetism--The Magnetic Power of soft Iro...

Nature’s Chemistry--Changes produced by Chemical Combination--Atomic Constitution of Bodies--Laws of Combination--Combining Equivalents--Elective Affinity--Chemical Decompositio...

Water--Its Constituents--Oxygen--Hydrogen--Peroxide of Hydrogen--Physical Property of Water--Ice--Sea Water--Chlorine--Muriatic Acid--Iodine--Bromine--Compounds of Hydrogen with...