How to Work With the Spectroscope: A Manual of Practical Manipulation With Spectroscopes of All Kinds (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE Amoxg the Nations that came within the purview of the Old Testament Writers-nations seldom mentioned without stricture, whether for idolatry, immorality, or cruelty-perhaps none were the object of so concentrated an aversion as were the Philistines. The licentiousness of the Amorites. the hard-heartedness of the Egyptian taskmasters, the fiendish savagery of the Assyrian warriors, each of these in turn receives its due share of condemnation. But the scornful judgement passed by the Hebrews on the Philistines has made a much deeper impression on the Bible-reading West than have their fulminations against other races and communities with which they had to do. In English, from at least the time of Dekker,1 the word * Philistine' has been used in one or other of the senses of the modern colloquialism ' outsider'; and, especially since the publication of the essays of Mr. Matthew Arnold, it has become almost a technical term for a person boorish or bucolic of mind, impervious to

Table of Contents

INDEX; Mow to Work with a Spectroscope ; The Miniature Spectroscope ; The Rain-band Spectroscope; How to Use a Direct-Vision Spectroscope; Browning's New Miniature Spectroscope, with Micrometer ; The Student's Spectroscope ; The Model Spectroscope ; How to Use the Student's, the Model, and the Chemical Spectroscope How to Obtain the Bright Lines in the Spectrum given by any Substance To Take the Refractive Index or Dispersive Power Browning's Universal Automatic Spectroscope How to Use an Automatic Spectroscope Browning's Automatic Solar Spectroscope ; How to Use a Solar Spectroscope ; The Star Spectroscope; The Amateur's Star Spectroscope ; How to Use a Star Spectroscope McClean's New Star Spectroscope How to Use McClean's Star Spectroscope How to Use McClean's Universal Spectroscope The Induction Coil Browning's S

John Browning (1830-1925) was the leading British manufacturer of precision scientific instruments. The two volumes offered in this reissue are witnesses to the growth of popular science, providing a complete overview of the care and use of spectroscopes and also an introduction to the silvered-glass reflecting telescope.