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1852

Knowledge for the People:

OR, THE PLAIN

WHY AND BECAUSE.

FAMILIARIZING SUBJECTS OF USEFUL CURIOSITY AND
AMUSING RESEARCH.

BY JOHN TIMBS,

Editor of Laconics: Arcana of Science and Art,' &c.

"Its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge, and its objects truth
and utility."-Sir Humphry Davy.

Popular Chemistry—Mechanics-Arts and
Manufactures.

BOSTON:

LILLY & WAIT, AND CARTER & HENDEE.

NEW YORK, E. BLISS; PHILADELPHIA, CAREY AND HART;
NEW ORLEANS, M. CARROL; PORTLAND, 8. COLMAN.

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