Abc's of Science
A charming artifact of Victorian scientific curiosity, this late 19th-century primer captures science in its age of wonder. Oliver organizes the natural world into three kingdoms, mineral, vegetal, and animal, tracing the web of connections between them. Readers journey through the mechanics of the solar system, the mysteries of protoplasm and reproduction, and the curious phenomenon of animal magnetism and its supposed influence on intelligence. The book culminates in breathtaking natural spectacles: lightning's violent beauty and the ghostly curtains of the Aurora Borealis. What makes this volume fascinating isn't modern accuracy, readers will find plenty that prompts a knowing smile, but its window into a world when science still burned with the thrill of discovery, when a single curious mind could grasp the whole of natural knowledge.
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