Science Lectures for the People, delivered in Manchester

Abstract

IT is now nine years since Prof. Roscoe made the bold experiment of ascertaining whether the working men of Manchester would appreciate the value of scientific instruction given in a plain but correct manner, and illustrated by suitable experiments and diagrams. The magnificent success that attended the early efforts of Prof. Roscoe has led the experiment to be repeated yearly until it is now, we hope, a settled institution. In the preface to one of the series we learn that each lecture, on an average, has been attended by nearly 1,000 persons, and an additional and wider audience has been secured by the verbatim reports of the lectures which are bound together in the volumes before us. Published at a penny each, from 5,000 to 10,000 of each of these lectures have been sold, and the demand for back numbers still continues.

Science Lectures for the People, delivered in Manchester.

First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series, 1866–74. 3 vols. (Manchester: Heywood.)