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8 total works

Cover of How Did We Find Out about Outer Space?
Traces the history of mankind's venture into outer space from the first attempts at flight to the sending of human beings to the moon.

Cover of How Did We Find Out about Coal?
Presents a history of fire, considers wood as a fuel, and discusses the formation of coal and the history of its use as a fuel.

Cover of How Did We Find Out about Volcanoes?
Discusses the features of a volcano, the causes of eruptions, and the locations of active volcanoes on earth and elsewhere in our solar system.

Cover of How Did We Find Out about Our Human Roots?
Traces the history of the study of early man and explains what this study has revealed about his roots.

Cover of How Did We Find out about Solar Power?
Describes the uses of the sun's energy from the time of the Greeks and Romans to the present day and discusses the potential of this source of energy in our modern world.

Cover of How Did We Find Out the Earth is Round?
Discusses the theories that led to the discovery that the earth was round.

Cover of A First Look at Animals with Horns
Introduces the horned animals, such as buffalo, sheep, cow, goat, and antelope.

Cover of How Did We Find Out about Atoms?
Discusses the concept of atoms and evidence of their existence accumulated since the time of the ancient Greeks.