"Popular Scientific Recreations" by Gaston Tissandier. London: Ward, Lock & Co., (ca. 1890). New edition.
This massive 884-page book contains a large collection of scientific amusements, including natural history; physics (including automata); gases; water; heat; light (including optical illusions, the thaumatrope, phenokistoscope, zoetrope, and the praxinoscope, ghost illusions, the stereoscope, telescope and microscope, photography, dissolving views, spectroscopy); acoustics; electricity (with electrical machines); galvanism; magnetism; applied electricity (including the telephone and phonograph); aeronautics; chemistry; mineralogy; new forms of transport; angles and the measurement of angles; astronomy and the solar system; geography and geology; meteorology; botany; zoology; games (including the magic top and the gyroscope), illustrated with over 900 engravings of equipment and diagrams.
"Popular Scientific Recreations" by Gaston Tissandier. London: Ward, Lock & Co., (ca. 1890). New edition.
This massive 884-page book contains a large collection of scientific amusements, including natural history; physics (including automata); gases; water; heat; light (including optical illusions, the thaumatrope, phenokistoscope, zoetrope, and the praxinoscope, ghost illusions, the stereoscope, telescope and microscope, photography, dissolving views, spectroscopy); acoustics; electricity (with electrical machines); galvanism; magnetism; applied electricity (including the telephone and phonograph); aeronautics; chemistry; mineralogy; new forms of transport; angles and the measurement of angles; astronomy and the solar system; geography and geology; meteorology; botany; zoology; games (including the magic top and the gyroscope), illustrated with over 900 engravings of equipment and diagrams.