Fragments of science for unscientific people : a series of detached essays, lectures, and reviews / by John Tyndall.

London : Longmans, Green, 1871 (London : Spottiswoode.)

xii, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

3rd ed.

Reprinted from various sources

Includes bibliographic footnotes

The constitution of nature -- Thoughts on prayer and natural law -- Miracles and special providences -- Matter and force -- An address to students -- Scope and limit of scientific materialism -- Scientific use of imagination -- On radiation -- On radiant heat in relation to the colour and chemical constitution of bodies -- On chemical rays and the structure and light of the sky -- Dust and disease with additions and expansions -- Life and letters of Faraday -- An elementary lecture on magnetism -- Slates -- Death by lightning -- Science and spirits -- Vitality -- Additional remarks on miracles.