With 90 illustrations, many of them full-page, and a colored frontispiece. One volume, 12mo $1 50
For specimen illustration see page 15.
In the Wonders of Heat the principal phenomena are presented as viewed from the standpoint afforded by recent discoveries. Burning-glasses, and the remarkable effects produced by them, are described; the relations between heat and electricity, between heat and cold, and the comparative effects of each, are discussed; and incidentally, interesting accounts are given of the mode of formation of glaciers, of Montgolfier's balloon, of Davy's safety-lamp, of the methods of glass-blowing, and of numerous other facts in nature and processes in art dependent upon the influence of heat. Like the other volumes of the Library of Wonders, this is illustrated wherever the text gives an opportunity for explanation by this method.
CRITICAL NOTICES.
"From the first page to the very last page the interest is all-absorbing."—Albany Evening Times.
"The book deserves, as it will doubtless attain, a wide circulation."—Pittsburgh Chronicle.
"This book is instructive and clear."—Independent.
"It describes and explains the wonders of heat in a manner to be clearly understood by non-scientific readers."—Phila. Inquirer.
Animal Intelligence.