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Running time: 6 hours, 56 minutes

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Note: I have not previewed this book for evolutionary content.  Glancing through, I did see one reference to “millions of years” in chapter one. If this is a concern for you, please click “read this book yourself” to peruse its contents. This book does appear on some popular booklists, such as Ambleside Online.

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

Lecture Ten: Bees and Flowers