Science Simplified. Light; Heat; Electricity; Magnetism; Pneumatics and Acoustics.

Pepper, Professor.

Verlag: London: Frederick Warne and Co., nd (ca 1870), 1870

Beschreibung

Five separate books. Small 4to. pp. 126; 88; 146; 87. Very good copies in original cloth, corners slightly rubbed. Rare as separate books. These five works together with Chemistry form the 6 parts of Pepper's Cyclopaedic Science published as a single book in 1869. Of the six separate works the British Library only has Chemistry, and does not have any of these five works. John Henry Pepper was a celebrity populariser of Victorian science, whose Royal Polytechnic Institution lectures attracted large audiences to witness his amazing experimental demonstrations. He made the phaenomena of physics and chemistry visible and hence accessible, challenging the boundaries between laboratory science and theatrical spectacle. His most famous stage demonstration was "Pepper's Ghost" described in "Light", which made its debut at the Polytechnic in a Christmas performance of Charles Dickens's Haunted Man in 1862. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WS023

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Science Simplified. Light; Heat; Electricity...

Verlag: London: Frederick Warne and Co., nd (ca 1870)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1870

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very good