Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures, credited to Arabella B. Buckley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures by Arabella B. Buckley. Read in English by J. M. Smallheer "The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, The Fairyland of Science. It travels over a wide field, pointing out a few of the marvellous facts which can be studied and enjoyed by the help of optical instruments. It will be seen at a glance that any one of the subjects dealt with might be made the study of a lifetime, and that the little information given in each lecture is only enough to make the reader long for more. In these days, when moderate-priced instruments and good books and lectures are so easily accessible, I hope some eager minds may be thus led to take up one of the branches of science opened out to us by magic glasses; while those who go no further will at least understand something of the hitherto unseen world which is now being studied by their help. The two last lectures wander away from this path, and yet form a natural conclusion to the Magician's lectures to his young Devonshire lads." Arabella B. Buckley

Recording facts

• Recording title: Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures
• Author credits: Arabella B. Buckley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 4:50:22

Catalogue topics

• stars
• astronomy
• sun
• lunar eclipse
• telescope
• microscope
• lichens
• moss

Track guide

1. 01 - The Magician's Chamber by Moonlight — 30:30
2. 02 - Magic Glasses and how to use them. Part 1 — 15:52
3. 03 - Magic Glasses and how to use them, Part 2 — 21:26
4. 04 - Fairy Rings and how they are made — 26:11
5. 05 - The Life-History of Lichens and Mosses — 27:55
6. 06 - The History of a Lava Stream — 28:04
7. 07 - An Hour with the Sun, Part 1 — 22:56
8. 08 - An Hour with the Sun, Part 2 — 12:24
9. 09 - An Evening among the Stars, Part 1 — 26:03
10. 10 - An Evening among the Stars, Part 2 — 10:09
11. 11 - Little Beings from a Miniature Ocean — 30:54
12. 12 - The Dartmoor Ponies — 17:41
13. 13 - The Magician's Dream of Ancient Days — 20:21

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