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Show LEA AND BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIO~l!l. POPULAR SCIENCE. PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT, MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST, BEING AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTRATE THE FIRST PRIN CIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, BY THE AID OF THE POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS OF YOUTH. FROM THE SIXTH L'iD GREATLY lb1PROVED LONDON EDITION. In one very neat royal 18mo. volume. with cearly one hundred illustrations on wood. Fine extra crimson cloth. "Messrs. Lea & Blanchard have issued, in a beautiful manner, a handsome book, called ' Philosophy in Spott_ made Sc1ence m Eamest.' This is an adm1rahle attempt to illustrate the first principles of Naturnl Philosophy, by the aid of the popular toys and sports of youth. Useful infonna- =j'~n"fh~d~:nise:r~bl~~'i,~?~t~:~~=~·~a.r~:!~"t,(v::~.':~JY:P¥.•=~ MirT1h". ENDLESS AMUSEMENT. JUST ISSUED. ENDLESS AMUSEMENT, A COLLECTION OF NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF SCIENCE, INCLUDING ACOUSTICS. A.IUTHM:E'riC, CHE~flSTRY, ELECTRICITY, HYDRAULICS, HYDROSTATICS, liAGNETISM, MECHANICS, OPTICS, WONDERS OF THE Affi PUMP, ALL THE POPULAR TRICKS AND CHANGES OF THE CARDS, &c., &c. TO WBlCD IS ADDED, A COllPLETE SYSTElll OF PYROTECHNY, OR THE ART OF MAKING FIRE-WORKS: THE WHOLE SO CLEARLY EXPLAINED AS TO BE WITHIN REACH OF THE JIIOST LIMITED CAPACITY. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION. In one neat royal ISmo. volume, fine cl<tra crimson cloth. This work has loner supplied instructive amusement t.o the rising generations in England, and ;i:~l ~~~~!h~usb~ri~'i:!"!d'~~e~'::':~~~~~ ~~~;g~t~;;~~,li~; ~~~o:;.~~~to\!"ici~~~ ~~ 1~lery . CHEMISTRY OF THE FOUR SEASONS, SPRING, SUMlliER, AUTUlllN, AND WINTER. A.N ESSAY, PRINCIPALLY CONCERNING NATURAL PHEN0)1ENA, ADMI1'1'ING OF INTERPRETATION BY CHEUICAL SCIENCE, Ai'ID ILLUSTRATING PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. BY THOMAS GRIFFITHS, PROFESSOR OP CHEMISTRY lN THE MEDJC.\.L COLLF..OE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL, ETC. In one large royal 12mo. volume, with many Wood-Cuts, extra cloth . .. Chemistry is assuredly one of the most useful aml interestin~ of the natural scienees. Chemical chauges meet us at e~ery step, and dunn~ every season, the wmds and the rain. the heat ami the frosts, each have tbe1r pecuhar ancl appropriate phenomena. And those who have hitherto romamed Jn.c;enSlble to these change~ and uumov~d anuU such remarkable, anti often startling retm! ts, wtll lru;e their anathy upon remlmg the Ch~m1stry of the • Four Seasons,' and be ~reparell lo :t~Knt~~ ~~~~~~";;[ 1:1cr~uG~G:l~h:~~~~;int c?a~t~~~~c~~v! tt~v~~~y;(~~~~"~r ~~~t~~~t';jt m1~d!~ :3 those who have lookeU. less ca.refully mto n::tture's beautu::s, w1ll fin<l themselves led on step by ~~[; ~~~t~~~~e~l~:~~a !!whg'~el~h~l~~111eb~~~~·e11~u~~~l ~:~~~~s~v~~~~~~r:e1~x~~~. N~ftm~;~ Lm<ctt. |