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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pepper, John Henry, 1821-1900

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"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.)

Contents:

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.

Credits:

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)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 46.3 (College-level). Difficult to read.

Release date is 2013-01-13