Description
Arabella Buckley’s fanciful science non-fiction for the little ones, discusses of the magnificent ponds and rivers, teaching kids a bit of zoology and botany. By Pond and River consists of: A Frog’s Life; The Dragon-fly and His Companions; Down Below; The Stickleback’s Nest; The Kingfisher; The Water-rat, or Water-vole; The Water-bugs; Along the River; The Otter Family; Flowers for the Show; and Peggy’s Water-plants. Arabella Burton Buckley was an author and science professor. Arabella was born in Brighton, England. Henry Buckley, her brother, became the 1st Baron Wrenbury. When she was 24 years old, she was an employee of Charles Lyell. She has a good repute to teach her pupils. Some of her literary works, such as The Fairy-Land of Science, a non-fiction science book for the little learners. Her book was described as discourses apart from episodes epitomizing how she would become more productive as a professor. The Two Great Sculptures – Water and Ice, stresses how water and ice form peaks, gaps and dales as a sculptor will make a statuette by making use of a chisel. It also defines how water at all times must go elsewhere and always integrates the earth with it, creating precipices to fall into pieces resulting to a faulty structure. She beheld no inconsistency in utilizing whim to express the very details of our beautiful nature: “Can any magic tale be more marvelous, or any thought grander, or more sublime than this?”. She wrote using her maiden name though she was already married. She used her married name, Mrs Fisher in her Eyes and No Eyes. She also made two editions of Mary Somerville’s Connexion of the Physical Sciences and Heinrich Leutemann’s Animals from Life. Her writings were converted into Japanese, Polish and Swedish languages during her time.
Product ID: 9781776741113
Sku: ZI-VX4C-1WLZ
