Popular scientific lectures / by Ernst Mach ; translated by Thomas J. McCormack.

Chicago : Open Court, 1895.

313 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Originals were not published in a collected form

The forms of liquids.--The fibres of Corti.--On the causes of harmony.--The velocity of light.--Why has man two eyes?--On symmetry.--On the fundamental concepts of electrostatics.--On the principle of the conservation of energy.--On the economical nature of physical inquiry.--On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought.--On the principle of comparison in physics.--On instruction in the classics and the mathematico-physical sciences.