Running time: 6 hours, 56 minutes
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Summary: 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)
Lecture One: The Fairyland of Science: How to Enter it, How to Use it, and How to Enjoy it
Lecture Two: Sunbeams and the Work They Do
Lecture Three: The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live
Lecture Four: A Drop of Water on its Travels
Lecture Five: The Two Great Sculptors: Water and Ice
Lecture Six: The Voices of Nature and How We Hear Them
Lecture Seven: The Life of a Primrose
Lecture Eight: The History of a Piece of Coal
Lecture Nine: Bees in the Hive
