A guide to the scientific knowledge of things familiar / by the Rev. Dr. Brewer.

  • E. Cobham Brewer
Date:
[1863]
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Credit: A guide to the scientific knowledge of things familiar / by the Rev. Dr. Brewer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Piston ]05 Plants collect clew .. 215 forebode rain .... 157 grow by moonlight 227 Plaster of Paris .... 488 of stoves falls 126 Plasterers cannot work in frost 375 Plate warmer .. 196,200 Platinum, good con- ductor 172 its use 263 never tarnishes 263 Ploughing warms us .. 167 Plumbago 260 prevents rust 260 Poison for flies 439 Poker draws up fire .. 53 liot against a stove 192 cold on a fender 179, 193 how to^ carry a hot 242 rusts 259 rust of, prevented 260 Polar current 311 sounds 430 Polish, use of 180 Polished metal teapots 205 Ponds dried up 168 Poor averse to cleanliness 96 ventilation .. 97 lazy 92 Poppies repel dew .... 230 Pores of wood....... 11.O Porter, froth of.. .. 278 set before a fire 112 stale 2B6 vats daT;gerous 274 Poiliive electricity .... 16 PAGK Potts charred 74 Potatoes, green .... 421 yellow 4-0 Potash, tartrate of .... 488 Potassium 464 burns in water 464 Prick of the skin bleeds 83 Primrose yellow 419 Prisms divide light.. .. 411 Prognostics of weather from animals .. 154, 156 candles & lamps 161 clouds 138 corns 257 distant objects.. 155 flowers 157 insects 159 magpies 159 perfumes 158 railway smoke.. 153 rainbow 146 sea gulls 160 sky 146 smoke 158 sounds 163 sun-rise 146 sun-set 143, 146 Proverbs about— April 325 clouds 140 dust 332 kettles 207 magpies 159 March 323 rainbows .... 146, 147 scripture, 145, 181, 350 spring 333 sun H(J