The Fairyland of Science
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"I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science, -- a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairy-land is all that is beautiful, and full of poetry and imagination. But I thoroughly believe myself, and hope to prove to you, that science is full of beautiful pictures, of real poetry, and of wonder-working fairies; ..."(From the Introduction to The Fairyland of Science)
Chapitres
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| Lecture 01 - Introduction to the Wonders of the Physical World | 52:27 | Lu par Patricia Oakley | |
| Lecture 02 - Sunbeams and the Work They Do | 44:02 | Lu par Patricia Oakley | |
| Lecture 03 - The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live | 41:52 | Lu par Patricia Oakley | |
| Lecture 04 - A Drop of Water on its Travels | 48:16 | Lu par Patricia Oakley | |
| Lecture 05 - The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice | 33:13 | Lu par J. M. Smallheer | |
| Lecture 06 - The Voices of Nature and How We Hear Them | 52:29 | Lu par Ashwin Jain | |
| Lecture 07 - The Life of a Primrose | 37:43 | Lu par Ruth Golding | |
| Lecture 08 - The History of a Piece of Coal | 37:41 | Lu par Ruth Golding | |
| Lecture 09 - Bees in the Hive | 35:45 | Lu par Ruth Golding | |
| Lecture 10 - Bees and Flowers | 32:20 | Lu par Auntie Em |
Critiques
A few mistakes
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Beers do not fly from flower to flower to get honey. Flowers contain no honey. Flowers contain nectar and pollen.