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The Fairyland of Science - Rare
by Arabella B. Buckley
Hardcover, 1879, Illustrated. First Edition, First Printing
Published by Hurst & Company, New York
The Fairy-Land of Science is a beautiful book by Arabella Buckley which provides a wonderful Introduction to the wonders of the physical world: sunbeams and how the benefit the world, the aerial ocean, a drop of water and how it travels, the voices of nature and how we hear them, the life of a beautiful primrose flower, the history of a piece of coal, bees in the hive, and bees and flowers. This is a classic book that can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike.
"There are forces around us, and among us, which I shall ask you to call fairies, and these are ten thousand times more wonderful, more magical, and more beautiful in their work, than those of the old fairy tales. They, too, are invisible, and many people live and die without ever seeing them or caring to see them." This introduction to science is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator in her own right, lecturing, editing such prominent scientific treatises as Mary Somerville's Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1877) and Heinrich Leutemann's Animals from Life (1887), and writing imaginative introductory science books like this one, which, The Times wrote, "deserves to take a permanent place in the literature of youth." Through her books, Arabella Buckley promoted the study of natural science by showing children that "science is full of beautiful pictures, of real poetry, and of wonder-working fairies." This truly enchantingly written, charmingly bound, and beautifully illustrated primer encompasses ten lectures on the sun, atmosphere, water, sound waves, the life cycle of a flower, coal, and bees, all abundantly illustrated throughout in engravings that range from the fanciful to the scientific. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". viii, 244pp,
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