From the cover:
Fascinating and Popular "why" lectures on atoms, metal, gases, diamonds, ice, crystals, liquids by a Nobel Laureate.
CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THINGS by Sir William Bragg
Anyone who wonders about the world around him will enjoy this remarkably clear explanation of certain aspects of modern science by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THINGS was developed from Sir William Bragg's Royal Institution Christmas lectures dealing with the nature of atoms, gases, liquids, and various types of crystals.
This book requires no scientific background of its readers. In language an intelligent child can understand, it answers such questions as
How birds fly
How uranium is transmuted to lead
How X-rays work
Why a spinning ball travels in a curved track
Why bubbles bounce from each other
plus many other scientific topics that are seldom explained in simple terms.
CONTENTS:
- The Atoms of Which Things are Made.
- The Nature of Gases.
- The Nature of Liquids.
- The Nature of Crystals: the Diamond.
- The Nature of Crystals: Ice and Snow.
- The Nature of Crystals Metals.
"More interesting than any bestseller among novels which we have ever seen," LONDON MORNING POST. "A detailed, easy-to-follow explanation of gases, liquids, and solids," INDUSTRIAL BULLETIN.
Unabridged reissue of last English printing. 138 illustrations
THIS DOVER EDITION IS DESIGNED FOR YEARS OF USE
THE PAPER is chemically the same quality as you would find in books priced $5.00 or more. It does not discolor or become brittle with age. Not artificially bulked, either, this edition is an unabridged full-length book, but is still easy to handle.
THE BINDING: The pages in this book are SEWN in signatures, in the method traditionally used for the best books. These books open flat for easy reading and reference. Pages do not drop out, the binding does not crack and split (as is the case with many paperbooks held together with glue).
THE TYPE IS LEGIBLE: Margins are ample and allow for cloth rebinding.
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