Fairyland of Science

Author(s)

• Arabella B. Buckley

"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)

1. Lecture 01 - Introduction to the Wonders of the Physical World
2. Lecture 02 - Sunbeams and the Work They Do
3. Lecture 03 - The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live
4. Lecture 04 - A Drop of Water on its Travels
5. Lecture 05 - The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice
6. Lecture 06 - The Voices of Nature and How We Hear Them
7. Lecutre 07 - The Life of a Primrose
8. Lecture 08 - The History of a Piece of Coal
9. Lecutre 09 - Bees in the Hive
10. Lecture 10 - Bees and Flowers