Excerpt from Physiography for Beginners
In the Forty-Second Report of the Department of Science and Art, the Director for Science, Captain W. de W. Abney, remarks: -
"The syllabus in Physiography has been thoroughly revised. It has now been so framed that it is, particularly in the Elementary Stage, a real introduction to the various branches of Physical Science, and can be taught in this stage without Mathematics... One object of this revision has been to adapt it for pupil-teachers who may be called upon to give object lessons in their future career. Object lessons without a knowledge of the fundamental principles of Science must fall far short of what they should be, and are then worse than useless."
Under the guidance, and in the spirit of this new syllabus, an attempt has been made in this little book to provide the beginner with such an introduction to Physical Science. No knowledge of Mathematics, except an acquaintance with the ordinary processes of Arithmetic, has been assumed.
The lessons have been made as experimental as possible. Not only have the experiments accompanying the syllabus in the recent Science and Art Directory been incorporated, but many others have been added. Those from the Directory are indicated thus, §.
Teachers are strongly urged to perform the experiments before their classes, and not, as is unfortunately so often the case, content themselves with telling the students to read about the instructions and exercise their imaginations. The latter proceeding is no substitute for the former.
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