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 Accident in Invention and Discovery
On Sensations of Orientation
On Some Phenomena Attending the Flight of Projectiles
On Instruction in the Classics and the Mathematico-Physical Sciences
Appendixes.
A Contribution to the History of Acoustics
Remarks on the Theory of Spatial Vision
Index

About the Author
ERNST MACH FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE, NOW PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF INDUCTIVE SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA