Physical Description:351 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. print
Edition:Registered ed.
Publisher:New York : P.F. Collier, c1938.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
The forces of matter ; The chemical history of a candle / by Michael Faraday -- On the conservation of force ; Ice and glaciers / by Hermann von Helmholtz --The wave theory of light ; The tides / by Sir William Thompson -- The extent of the universe / by Simon Newcomb -- Geographical evolution / by Sir Archibald Geikie.