Christmas At The Royal Institution: An Anthology of Lectures by M. Faraday, J. Tyndall, R. S. Ball, S. P. Thompson, E. R. Lankester, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg, R. L. Gregory, and I. Stewa

by James, Frank A. J. L.

• ISBN13: 9789812771094
• ISBN10: 9812771093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children. Initially made accessible in book form, the lectures have been nationally televised throughout the UK and distributed worldwide since the 1960s, making them accessible to an even larger audience. The importance of these lectures in promoting science to a broad audience is perhaps best gauged by the fact that an image of one of Faraday's lectures appeared on the Bank of England [pound]20 note in the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Biographical Notes on Lecturers	p. xxvii
The Correlation of the Physical Forces	p. 1
Carbon or Charcoal-Coal Gas-Respiration and Its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle-Conclusion	p. 17
The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers	p. 35
Lessons in Electricity	p. 61
Stars	p. 75
Rontgen Light	p. 125
The Great Extinct Reptiles-Dinosaurs from the Oolites-The Pariasaurus and Inostransevia from the Trias of North Russia and South Africa-Marine Reptiles	p. 163
The Atoms of Which Things Are Made	p. 199
Our Electrical Supply	p. 231
Objects and Pictures	p. 287
Gallery of Monsters	p. 319
Index	p. 359
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