Pisulewski S./ Brever - The secrets of nature or an explanation of the everyday phenomena of nature. [1856r.]

Szymon Pisulewski, Tajniki przyrodzenia czyli wyjaśnienie codziennych zjawisk natury w formie zapytania i odpowiedzi podane, sposobem przystępnym do pojęcia każdego ułożony i do dzisiejszej stanu nauk przyrodzonych zastosowane. This work was written in English by Dr. Brever Professor at the University of Cambrigde, and from the last French edition translated into Polish by S. Pisulewski Mag. Fil. Star. Naucz. Natural Sciences in Szl. Warsz. Inst,
Warsaw, 1856. published and printed by S. Orgelbrand the Bookseller and Typographer.
Linen binding, pp [3],VIII, 434, format 17 x 11.8 cm.

Condition: binding shabby, soiled, rubbed, loss of cloth at spine and on back cover, catalog sticker on spine, first and last pages with more discoloration, relatively clean inside, typical rust spots and yellowing, a few catalog notations on front pastedown.

In the contents, 2096 queries and answers to various issues in the fields of: heat (sun, electricity, chemical actions, mechanical actions, others); meteorology (air pressure, winds, water meteors, clouds, waves and tides, precipitation); acoustics (sound propagation, echo, musical sound); optics (light, eye and vision, light breaking and reflection, similarity between color and sound); metalloids and metals (acidoids, underacids, hydrogen, water, saltpeter or nitrogen, composition of atmospheric air, carbon, carbonic acid, carbonic hydrogen, phosphorus, phosphoric hydrogen); organic chemistry (sugar, fermentation, putrefaction, voluntary burning); animal chemistry (composition of blood and meat of animals, respiration, animal heat, human food, hunger, sleep, acids, fats).
Among the questions and answers such "unexpected" juxtapositions as : ... 908 What is wind? - The stirring of the air over a considerable space ... 2050. From what acid does the sour taste of sorrel come? - From oxalic acid.