Environment : a magazine of science

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Explore the latest environmental science research, news, and critical issues. Stay informed on global and local ecological topics in this science magazine.

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Articles in this Journal

The Historical Development of Science

Provided that you have a good knowledge of our present beliefs with regard to the layer of gas surrounding our world, and which we call the atmosphere, it is very interesting to go away back into the past and read about the funny ideas hel...

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Medical Treatment by X-Rays and Other Radiation

When you are subjected to radiation, for medical purposes, the radiations are applied for one of two reasons : either that the practitioner may through you, or that he may do work (that is, expend energy) on the surface of your body or on...

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Front matter - Volume 1 (2) 1934 - Science, Culture, and Education

"I have yet to meet a scientist who prides himself on his ignorance of the classics; I have met many who had a far sounder appreciation of the great literary works of the past than had their contemporaries who received purely a so-called c...

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Modern Views on Valency

A deputation of your Association has told me that many school teachers find it a little difficult to get any considerable discussion of valency or the electronic formulae of compounds in the ordinary textbooks of chemistry. This applies to...

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Earthquakes

The terrifying effects of earthquakes have made a deep impression upon the human mind, for from the earliest times we have had handed down the traditions of primitive peoples, which clearly are based upon earthquake phenomena. When, with t...

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X-Rays and their Biological Effects

X-Rays were discovered by the celebrated Bavarian physicist Wilhelm Rontgen in November, 1895. During the few years following the discovery there was considerable speculation as to the nature of the rays, but an intensive study of their ma...

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A New Kind of Hydrogen

For about a century after Dalton first proposed his theory of atoms chemists believed that all the atoms of a given element possessed the same mass. This belief was, of course, quite consistent with all the facts known at the time. During...

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Early Measurements and Units of Measurement, and How We Obtained the Systems We Use Today

In a previous article I discussed the growth of our ideas of length and of time, and how our present British Standards were fixed by Act of Parliament in 1855. Now we require to consider our units of mass, or quantity of matter, and we fin...

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The Greatness of Common Things

Many discoveries are lost through laziness, a fact of which we are well aware; or if every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack (as Napoleon thought), few soldiers take the trouble to unpack their kits. The atmosphere had been...

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Editorial Note

Certain of the articles in the last issue were unsigned, as are some in this. Many correspondents and local or beyond the reach of direct retaliation, have intimated, courteously or otherwise, that the authorship is obvious.

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Subscriptions

Will recipients of this journal who have not yet forwarded their subscriptions to the Australasian Medical Publishing Company, Limited, Seamer Street, Glebe, New South Wales, please do so immediately?

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The Birth of the Earth

The nature of the earth at its surface is apparent to us, and we may make direct physical and geological observations of the conditions in the surface layers. Mines and bores have penetrated to a certain depth, and natural cracks and uphea...