Lardner’s Museum of Science and Art. Complete in 12 Single Volumes, 18s., ornamental boards; or 6 Double Ones, £1 1s., cl. lettered.
⁂ Also, handsomely half-bound morocco, 6 volumes, £1 11s. 6d.
- Contents:—The Planets; are they inhabited Worlds?
- Weather Prognostics. Popular Fallacies in Questions
- of Physical Science. Latitudes and Longitudes. Lunar
- Influences. Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars. Railway
- Accidents. Light. Common Things.—Air. Locomotion
- in the United States. Cometary Influences. Common
- Things.—Water. The Potter’s Art. Common Things.—Fire.
- Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress.
- The Moon. Common Things.—The Earth. The Electric
- Telegraph. Terrestrial Heat. The Sun. Earthquakes and
- Volcanoes. Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth’s
- Micrometric Apparatus. Steam. The Steam Engine. The
- Eye. The Atmosphere. Time. Common Things.—Pumps.
- Common Things.—Spectacles—The Kaleidoscope. Clocks
- and Watches. Microscopic Drawing and Engraving. The
- Locomotive. Thermometer. New Planets.—Leverrier and
- Adams’s Planet. Magnitude and Minuteness. Common
- Things.—The Almanack. Optical Images. How to Observe
- the Heavens. Common Things.—The Looking Glass. Stellar
- Universe. The Tides. Colour. Common Things.—Man.
- Magnifying Glasses. Instinct and Intelligence. The Solar
- Microscope. The Camera Lucida. The Magic Lantern. The
- Camera Obscura. The Microscope. The White Ants; their
- Manners and Habits. The Surface of the Earth, or First
- Notions of Geography. Science and Poetry. The Bee. Steam
- Navigation. Electro-Motive Power. Thunder, Lightning,
- and the Aurora Borealis. The Printing Press. The Crust
- of the Earth. Comets. The Stereoscope. The Pre-Adamite
- Earth. Eclipses. Sound.
Lardner’s Animal Physics, or the Body and its Functions familiarly Explained. 520 Illustrations. 1 vol., small 8vo. 12s. 6d. cloth.
Lardner’s Animal Physiology for Schools (chiefly taken from the “Animal Physics”). 190 Illustrations. 12mo. 3s. 6d. cloth.
Lardner’s Hand-Book of Mechanics. 357 Illustrations. 1 vol., small 8vo., 5s.
Lardner’s Hand-Book of Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Heat. 292 Illustrations. 1 vol., small 8vo., 5s.
Lardner’s Hand-Book of Optics. 290 Illustrations. 1 vol., small 8vo., 5s.
Lardner’s Hand-Book of Electricity, Magnetism, and Acoustics. 395 Illustrations. 1 vol., small 8vo. 5s.
Lardner’s Hand-Book of Astronomy and Meteorology, forming a companion work to the “Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy.” 37 Plates, and upwards of 200 Illustrations on Wood. 2 vols., each 5s., cloth lettered.