Natural Law In Terrestrial Phenomena

Excerpt from Natural Law in Terrestrial Phenomena: A Study in the Causation of Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions, Wind-Storms, Temperature, Rainfall, With a Record of Evidence Direst need, been wholly depleted. Nevertheless a system of weather forecast which would enable the authorities to learn, for ten years ahead if they wished, what the extent and duration of rainfall and other meteorological conditions would be week by week, and, as experience grew, even day by day, in every part of the Empire, could not fail to be of almost inestimable value. This knowledge would impose a great responsibility upon the authorities for the provision of means to rightly use the opportunities provided by Nature, and must necessarily lead to the adoption by them of thorough and much-needed preventive measures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Divided into nine chapters, this book is intended to debunk some natural or man-made phenomena that were often attributed to being creations of magic. Some examples provided in the book were turning unground coffee into a steaming cup of one and automatons such as wooden doves.