The Fairyland of Science
Arabella B. Buckley
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"I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science, -- a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairy-land is all that is beautiful, and full of poetry and imagination. But I thoroughly believe myself, and hope to prove to you, that science is full of beautiful pictures, of real poetry, and of wonder-working fairies; ..."(From the Introduction to The Fairyland of Science) (6 hr 55 min)
Chapters
| Lecture 01 - Introduction to the Wonders of the Physical World | 52:27 | Read by Patricia Oakley |
| Lecture 02 - Sunbeams and the Work They Do | 44:02 | Read by Patricia Oakley |
| Lecture 03 - The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live | 41:52 | Read by Patricia Oakley |
| Lecture 04 - A Drop of Water on its Travels | 48:16 | Read by Patricia Oakley |
| Lecture 05 - The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice | 33:13 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |
| Lecture 06 - The Voices of Nature and How We Hear Them | 52:29 | Read by Ashwin Jain |
| Lecutre 07 - The Life of a Primrose | 37:43 | Read by Ruth Golding |
| Lecture 08 - The History of a Piece of Coal | 37:41 | Read by Ruth Golding |
| Lecutre 09 - Bees in the Hive | 35:45 | Read by Ruth Golding |
| Lecture 10 - Bees and Flowers | 32:20 | Read by Auntie Em |