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The Reason Why / A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood

Chapter 72: Transcriber's Note:
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About This Book

The collection presents concise, popular explanations for everyday natural phenomena and common scientific questions, arranged in a why-and-because question-and-answer format. Entries cover air and atmosphere, heat and chemistry, zoology and botany, health and materia medica, meteorology, electricity, light, and household physics, with indexed lessons grouping related topics. Each item offers practical accounts of causes and mechanisms intended for general readers who wish to understand the observable workings of nature.

Transcriber's Note:

  • Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
  • Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
  • Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
  • Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs and some illustrations have been moved closer to the text that references them.
  • Each page starts with a biblical quotation. They were moved between paragraphs when needed.
Other Notes:
  • p. ix: LESSON XI follows LESSON XII. This was not changed.
  • p. 151: Two consecutive questions are labeled 666. This was not changed.
  • p. 177: Question 892 was mislabeled. Changed to 802.
  • pp. 199 and 201 each have a question 869. This was not changed.
  • p. 232. "F. The muscle situated underneath, ..." This muscle is shown above in Fig. 61.
  • p. 251: "... that required to be removed..." changed to "... that are required to be removed"....
  • p. 253: "... destruction of the optic,..." changed to "... destruction of the optic nerve,..."
  • p. 286: "... that minerals, and animals..." changed to "... animals..."
  • p. 293: Two consecutive questions are labeled 1167. This was not changed.