The Child's Book of Nature for the Use of Families and Schools Intended to Aid Mothers and Teachers in Training Children in the Observation of Nature. Revised Edition. Part 3: Air, Water, Heat, Light, etc.
A children's science primer by Worthington Hooker, published by Harper & Brothers in 1886 in the United States, written to help mothers and teachers guide young pupils through observing air, water, heat and light. The pictures are small plain line engravings of simple apparatus and diagrams, such as a cup with a handle, a boxed heater with a grate, a lift pump, and a ring of numbered positions around a central circle, and a designer could take from them a clear, economical way of drawing everyday objects and schematic diagrams.
