The Fairy-Land of Science Contributor(s): Buckley, Arabella B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1727112024 ISBN-13: 9781727112023 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2018 * Out of Print * |
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BISAC Categories: - History - Science | Physics - General |
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.93 lbs) 314 pages |
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Publisher Description: The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley Week 2 One picture more, and then I hope you will believe in my fairies. From the cold garden, you run into the house, and find the fire laid indeed in the grate, but the wood dead and the coals black, waiting to be lighted. You strike a match, and soon there is a blazing fire. Where does the heat come from? Why do the coals burn and give out a glowing light? Have you not read of gnomes buried down deep in the earth, in mines, and held fast there till some fairy wand has released them, and allowed them to come to earth again? Well, thousands and millions of years ago, those coals were plants; and like the snowdrop in the garden of to-day, they caught the sunbeams and worked them into their leaves. Then the plants died and were buried deep in the earth and the sunbeams with them; and like the gnomes they lay imprisoned till the coals were dug out by the miners, and brought to your grate; and just now you yourself took hold of the fairy wand which was to release them. You struck a m |
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