The Story-book of Science

Title: The Story-book of Science
Author: Jean-Henri Fabre
Published : 1917
Source : Wikipedia
Copyright Status : Public domain
Category : Science, Technology

CONTENTS
CHAPTER

1
The Six

II
The Fairy Tale and the True Story

III
The Building of the City

IV
The Cows

V
The Sheepfold

VI
The Wily Dervish

VII
The Numerous Family

VIII
The Old Pear-Tree

IX
The Age of Trees

X
The Length of Animal Life

XI
The Kettle

XII
The Metals

XIII
Metal Plating

XIV
Gold and Iron

XV
The Fleece

XVI
Flax and Hemp

XVII
Cotton
XVIII
Paper

XIX
The Book

XX
Printing

XXI
Butterflies

XXII
The Big Eaters

XXIII
silk
XXIV
The Metamorphosis

XXV
Spiders

XXVI
The Epeira's Bridge

XXVII
The Spider's Web

XXVIII
The Chase

XXIX
Venomous Insects

XXX
Venom

XXXI
The Viper and the Scorpion

XXXII
The Nettle

XXXIII
Processionary Caterpillars

XXXIV
The Storm

XXXV
Electricity

XXXVI
The Experiment with the Cat

XXXVII
The Experiment with Paper

XXXVIII
Franklin and De Romas

XXXIX
Thunder and the Lightning-Rod

XL
Effects of the Thunderbolt

XLI
Clouds

XLII
The Velocity of Sound

XLIII
The Experiment with the Bottle of Cold Water

XLIV
Rain

XLV
Volcanoes

XLVI
Catania

XLVII
The Story of Pliny

XLVIII
The Boiling Pot

XLIX
The Locomotive

L
Emile's Observation

LI
A Journey to the End of the World

LII
The Earth

LIII
The Atmosphere

LIV
The Sun

LV
Day and Night

LVI
The Year and Its Seasons

LVII
Belladonna Berries

LVIII
Poisonous Plants

LIX
The Blossom

LX
Fruit

LXI
Pollen

LXII
The Bumble-Bee

LXIII
Mushrooms

LXIV
In the Woods

LXV
The Orange-Agaric

LXVI
Earthquakes

LXVII
Shall We Kill Them Both?

LXVIII
The Thermometer

LXIX
The Subterranean Furnace

LXX
Shells

LXXI
The Spiral Snail

LXXII
Mother-of-Pearl and Pearls

LXXIII
The Sea
LXXIV
Waves Salt Seaweeds
LXXXV
Running Water

LXXVI
The Swarm

LXXVII
Wax

LXXVIII
The Cells

LXXIX
Honey

LXXX
The Queen Bee

CHAPTER I

THE SIX
ONE evening, at twilight, they were assembled in a group, all six of them. Uncle Paul was reading in a large book. He always reads to rest himself from his labors, finding that after work nothing refreshes so much as communion with a book that teaches us the best that others have done, said, and thought. He has in his room, well arranged on pine shelves, books of all kinds. There are large and small ones, with and without pictures, bound and unbound, and even gilt-edged ones. When he shuts himself up in his room it takes something very serious to divert him from his reading. And so they say that Uncle Paul knows any number of stories. He investigates, he observes for himself. When he walks in his garden he is seen now and then to stop before the hive, around which the bees are humming, or under the elder bush, from which the little flowers fall softly, like flakes of snow; sometimes he stoops to the ground for a better view of a little crawling insect, or a blade of grass just pushing into view. What does he see? What does he observe? Who knows? They say, h

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