Comptes Rendus of Observation and Reasoning
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 12/19/2013
EAN 9781107653580, ISBN10: 1107653584
Paperback, 516 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
John Young Buchanan (1844–1925) was a Scottish chemist and oceanographer who worked extensively on the chemistry of marine environments. Originally published in 1917, this book gathers together a selection of Buchanan's papers on a broad variety of topics, some of them non-scientific. Numerous illustrative figures are also included and the contents listing contains extensive notes on each of the papers. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Buchanan, chemistry, oceanography and the history of science.
1. Recent Antarctic exploration
2. Chemical and physical notes
3. On ice and brines
4. On steam and brines
5. The size of the ice-grains in glaciers
6. Ice and its natural history
7. Beobachtungen über die Einwirkung der Strahlung auf das Gletschereis
8. In and around the Morteratsch glacier
a study in the natural history
9. On the use of the globe in the study of crystallography
10. On a solar calorimeter used in Egypt at the total eclipse in 1882
11. Solar radiation
12. The total solar eclipse of August 30, 1905
13. Eclipse predictions
14. The solar eclipse of April 17, 1912
15. The publication of scientific papers
16. The Royal Society
17. Nomenclature and notation in calorimetry
18. Thermometric scales for meteorological use
19. The metrical system
20. The power of Great Britain
21. And the House of Commons
22. Lord Milner and imperial scholarships
23. History in handy volumes
Summary of contents.