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Science From An Easy Chair
| Author: | Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester |
| Category: | Natural Sciences [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2018 |
| Pages: | 471 |
| File Size: | 5.33 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 20 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 850,113 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Sir E. Ray
The Author Book Science from an Easy Chair and the author of 12 another books.
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929
Book Description
Author: Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929
LoC No.: 10024460
Title: Science from an Easy Chair
Contents: Science and practice -- University training -- Darwin's theory -- Darwin's discoveries -- Darwin's theory unshaken -- Metchnikoff and Tolstoi -- The land of azure blue -- Fresh-water jelly-fishes -- The story of the common eel -- Modern horses and their ancestors -- A rival of the fabled upas tree -- Poisons and stings of plants and animals -- The dragon: a fancy or a fact -- Oysters -- Maternal care and molluscs -- The heart's beat -- Sleep -- The universal structure of living things -- Protoplasm, life and death -- Chemistry and protoplasm -- The simplest living things -- Tadpoles and frogs -- About the stars -- Comets -- About cholera -- Sea-breezes, mountain air, and ozone -- Oxygen gas for athletes and others -- Sparrows, trout, and selective breeding -- The feeble-minded -- Death-rates -- Gossamer -- The jumping bean -- Protective colouring in animals -- Hop-blight -- Green-flies, plant-lice, and parthenogenesis -- The deadly Phylloxera -- Clothes moths -- Stone and wood borers -- Christmas fare -- The origin of opium -- The most ancient men -- The cave-men's skulls -- More about the Neander Men.
Language: English
LoC Class: Q: Science
Subject: Science
Subject: Natural history
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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