Popular Scientific Lectures, Third Edition [Illustrated]

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index

CONTENTS
The Forms of Liquids
The Fibres of Corti
On the Causes of Harmony
The Velocity of Light
Why Has Man Two Eyes?
On Symmetry
On the Fundamental Concepts of Electrostatics
On the Principle of the Conservation of Energy
On the Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry
On Transformation and Adaptation in Scientific Thought
On the Principle of Comparison in Physics
On the Part Played by Accid...