The Museum of Science and Art, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from The Museum of Science and Art, Vol. 7 Cnar. III. - 62. Noon - 63. Clock time and sun time - 64. Decli nation of sum - 65. Tr'opics. - 66. Solstices. - 67. Dog days. 68. Why Midsummer is not the hottest season. - 69. Unequal intervals between the equinoxes. -70. Signs of the Zodiac. 71. Their designations. -72. Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Pamphlets and Reprints


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The Silver Canvas


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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.




Science and the Arts


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Deals with the philosophical implications of natural science in the various humanistic disciplines during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Remarkable in combining and relating numerous disparate disciplines in the arts and sciences.







Books in Print


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Literature


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Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art


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The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910







The Publishers Weekly


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