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FRAGMENTS of SCIENCE: a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. 2 vols. crown 8vo. 16s.
VOL. I.—The Constitution of Nature—Radiation—On Radiant Heat in Relation to the Colour and Chemical Constitution of Bodies—New Chemical Reactions produced by Light—On Dust and Disease—Voyage to Algeria to observe the Eclipse—Niagara—The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy—Alpine Sculpture—Recent Experiments on Fog-Signals—On the Study of Physics—On Crystalline and Slaty Cleavage—On Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Forces—Physical Basis of Solar Chemistry—Elementary Magnetism—On Force—Contributions to Molecular Physics—Life and Letters ofFaraday—The Copley Medalist of 1870—The Copley Medalist of 1871—Death by Lightning—Science and the Spirits.VOL. II.—Reflections on Prayer and Natural Law—Miracles and Special Providences—On Prayer as a Form of Physical Energy—Vitality—Matter and Force—Scientific Materialism—An Address to Students—Scientific Use of the Imagination—The Belfast Address—Apology for the Belfast Address—The Rev.James Martineauand the Belfast Address—Fermentation, and its Bearings on Surgery and Medicine—Spontaneous Generation—Science and Man—ProfessorVirchowand Evolution—The Electric Light.
VOL. I.—The Constitution of Nature—Radiation—On Radiant Heat in Relation to the Colour and Chemical Constitution of Bodies—New Chemical Reactions produced by Light—On Dust and Disease—Voyage to Algeria to observe the Eclipse—Niagara—The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy—Alpine Sculpture—Recent Experiments on Fog-Signals—On the Study of Physics—On Crystalline and Slaty Cleavage—On Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Forces—Physical Basis of Solar Chemistry—Elementary Magnetism—On Force—Contributions to Molecular Physics—Life and Letters ofFaraday—The Copley Medalist of 1870—The Copley Medalist of 1871—Death by Lightning—Science and the Spirits.
VOL. II.—Reflections on Prayer and Natural Law—Miracles and Special Providences—On Prayer as a Form of Physical Energy—Vitality—Matter and Force—Scientific Materialism—An Address to Students—Scientific Use of the Imagination—The Belfast Address—Apology for the Belfast Address—The Rev.James Martineauand the Belfast Address—Fermentation, and its Bearings on Surgery and Medicine—Spontaneous Generation—Science and Man—ProfessorVirchowand Evolution—The Electric Light.
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Contents: The Sabbath—Goethe's 'Farbenlehre'—Atoms, Molecules and Ether Waves—Count Rumford—Louis Pasteur, his Life and Labours—The Rainbow and its Congeners—Address delivered at the Birkbeck Institution on October 22, 1884—Thomas Young—Life in the Alps—About Common Water—Personal Recollections of Thomas Carlyle—On Unveiling the Statue of Thomas Carlyle—On the Origin, Propagation, and Prevention of Phthisis—Old Alpine Jottings—A Morning on Alp Lusgen.
Contents: The Sabbath—Goethe's 'Farbenlehre'—Atoms, Molecules and Ether Waves—Count Rumford—Louis Pasteur, his Life and Labours—The Rainbow and its Congeners—Address delivered at the Birkbeck Institution on October 22, 1884—Thomas Young—Life in the Alps—About Common Water—Personal Recollections of Thomas Carlyle—On Unveiling the Statue of Thomas Carlyle—On the Origin, Propagation, and Prevention of Phthisis—Old Alpine Jottings—A Morning on Alp Lusgen.
LECTURES on SOUND. With Frontispiece of Fog-Syren, and 203 other Woodcuts and Diagrams in the Text. Crown 8vo. 10s.6d.
HEAT, a MODE of MOTION. With 125 Woodcuts and Diagrams. Crown 8vo. 12s.
LECTURES on LIGHT DELIVERED in the UNITED STATES in 1872 and 1873. With Portrait, Lithographic Plate, and 59 Diagrams. Crown 8vo. 5s.
ESSAYS on the FLOATING MATTER of the AIR in RELATION to PUTREFACTION and INFECTION. With 24 Woodcuts. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.
RESEARCHES on DIAMAGNETISM and MAGNE-CRYSTALLIC ACTION; including the Question of Diamagnetic Polarity. Crown 8vo. 12s.
NOTES of a COURSE of NINE LECTURES on LIGHT, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1869. Crown 8vo. 1s.6d.
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The titles from the List of Illustrations were copied to the captions of the figures that otherwise had no caption, for the convenience of the reader.
The "sidenotes" in the main body of the text were originally page headers. They have been moved to a place more fitting for the flow, typically to the head of the appropriate paragraph.
Spelling variants where there was no obviously preferred choice were retained. These include: "Cleft-Station" and "Cleft Station," plus variants; "Cima di Jazzi" and "Cima de Jazzi;" "fanlike" and "fan-like;" "firewood" and "fire-wood;" "Flégère" and "Flegère;" "foreshorten(ed)" and "fore-shorten(ing);" "generalisation" and "generalization;" "judgment" and "judgement;" "Kumm" and "Kumme," which may be the same as "Kamm;" "lime light" and "lime-light;" "realize" and "realise(d);" "recognise" and "recognize(d);" "rearranged" and "re-arranged;" "refrozen" and "re-frozen;" "self-same" and "selfsame;" "semifluid" and "semi-fluid;" "sundial" and "sun-dial;" "Trift" and "Trifti," probably the same glacier; "weatherworn" and "weather-worn."
Changed "Hockjoch" to "Hochjoch" on page xi: "passage of the Hochjoch."
Changed "39" to "239" on page xvii, as the page number for chapter 2.
Changed "icefall" to "ice-fall" on page xxvi: "part of ice-fall."
Changed "havresack" to "haversack" on page 71: "my waterproof haversack."
Changed "afflùent" to "affluent" on page 98: "Finsteraar affluent."
Changed "184°.92" to "184.92°" on page 129.
Changed "gulleys" to "gullies" on page 143: "fissures and gullies."
Changed "SNOWSTORM" to "SNOW-STORM" in the sidenote from page 215: "SOUND THROUGH THE SNOW-STORM."
Changed "neutralise" to "neutralize" on page 231: "oppose and neutralize."
Moved the semi-colon inside the double quotes on page 285, around: "corresponding points."
Changed "last" to "least" in the footnote to page 292: "at least as anxious."
The angles depicted in Fig. 23 clearly do not match the text, and a comparison with the 1860 edition shows that this figure is in error. Apparently it is just a copy of Fig. 22. However, the figure from the 1896 edition was retained.
Changed "THOMPSON'S" to "THOMSON'S" in the chapter heading on page 340: "THOMSON'S THEORY."
Changed "I" to "It" on page 377: "It was also."
"Die Gletscher der Jetzzeit" on page 393 should probably be "Die Gletscher der Jetztzeit," but was not changed.
Inserted a comma in the index entry for "Aletsch Glacier:" "— —, bedding."
Inserted a comma in the index entry for "Dirt-bands:" "— —, maps of."
Changed "Goutér" to "Goûter" in the index entry for "Dôme du Goûter."
Changed "Hoch-joch" to "Hochjoch" in its index entry.
Inserted second em-dash in the index entry for "Mont Blanc:" "— —, second ascent of."
Inserted a comma in the index entry for "Rays:" "—, transmission of."
Inserted a comma in the index entry for "Strahleck:" "—, passage of."