Author : Richard Headstrom
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486135721
Embark on 59 adventures in the natural world: the structures of numerous microscopic animals; what everyday objects really look like at the cellular level; preparing specimens and slides. 142 illustrations.
Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Microscopes
ISBN : 9780794515249
An introduction to the microscope with colored illustrations, projects, and activities.
Author : Alvin Silverstein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486320162
Fascinating introduction to the world of single-celled organisms recounts the feeding, reproductive, and defensive strategies employed by an array of curious creatures: amoeba, paramecium, suctorian, hydra, others. Easy-to-understand language, 37 illustrations.
Author : Sam Kean
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0316089087
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.
Author : Dr. Georg Stehli
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 048613721X
In nontechnical language and with 199 photographs and drawings, the author clearly explains how a microscope works and what kind to use; preparation and examination of specimens, and much more.
Author : Roy Jay Cook
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : James Weiss
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786784637
The videographer behind the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel (386K subscribers) James Weiss presents a beginner's guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us. James Weiss was feeling lost in life when he first discovered his interest in the microscopic world. With his own microscope and a little homespun ingenuity, he began to capture thousands of hours of stunning footage of the creatures that he found around him: the local pond, at the beach, in a puddle. What he found astounded him, and it became his mission to reveal the beauty of the microcosmos to everyone. In his fun and accessible style, interspersed with otherworldly photographs, James presents this beginner's guide to the invisible life that surrounds us. From the most simple single-celled life, to complex micro-animals, James reveals the secrets of a world that we rarely consider. Navigating the births, feasts, tragedies, idiosyncracies and deaths of a cast of tiny characters, learn how these lifeforms work and what lessons they can teach us about our own existence. Mixing scientific detail with thoughtful musings that betray the fascination at the heart of his topic, James has created a way of looking at microorganisms in an empathetic and engaging style. You'll discover fascinating absurdities: that a cell can be both its own daughter and its own mother. That immortality really does exist, and it comes in the form of a teeny, tentacled medusa. And that seeing the wonder of nature from a new perspective can literally save your life.
Author : Richard Headstrom
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486165817
With an ordinary magnifying glass and this book as your guide, 50 adventures in close observation await you. These entertaining nature studies take you on field trips in and around your home, calling attention to interesting features of dozens of familiar or overlooked plants, insects, and other animals, and common materials like cloth, quartz, and the paper on which this book is printed. A great deal of basic natural-science theory and detail is presented in this delightful narrative. Flowers and grasses, fish scales, moth and insect wings, egg cases, buds, feathers, seeds, leaf scars, moss, molds, ferns, and common crystals are among the many structures examined, often comparatively. Many natural processes and behavior patterns are observed — seed dispersal and other methods of reproduction, protective coloration, rusting symbiosis, fertilization of the soil, breathing and case building of insects, and many others, all with only an inexpensive hand lens as equipment and with "specimens" you probably pass by going for a walk. More than 200 labeled illustrations accompany the text. The author is a former teacher and associate curator of the New England Museum of Natural History. No previous science background is assumed of readers, and curious readers of almost any age will find this book an interesting introduction to numerous facets of nature study.
Author : Kirsteen Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Microscopes
ISBN : 9780746077498
Breathtaking photographs reveal the secrets of the micro world, from algae to atoms, dust to GNA, and flies' eyes to flu viruses. Ages 9+.
Author : Matthew Cobb
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Where do we come from? Where do animals come from? For thousands of years we really had no clue how living things were created -- great thinkers like Aristotle and Plato had attempted to explain what became known as the problem of 'generation', but neither really had the tools or the insight to solve the mystery. The result was a wealth of weird and wonderful ideas about the components necessary to create new life -- blood, 'vapours', strange pulses in the air. Nor did people make intuitive leaps that now seem self-evident: it was widely accepted that animals could breed different species, for example; the notion that two sheep can only make another sheep is a surprisingly modern idea.But all this confusion changed in a flurry of discovery in the mid-seventeenth century. In just a decade, a group of young scientists in Europe, all known to each other and in competition with each other, established the existence first of the human egg and then of the human sperm. At last, the building blocks were in place -- although, in one of the great ironies of science, it would be another 150 years before someone worked out how fertilisation actually took place.Focusing on the personalities and rivalries of this extraordinary period, Matthew Cobb has shed new light not just on an under-reported story of science but on our very nature -- what makes us, and how little we still know about one of the greatest miracles of Nature.
