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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners
About this book
A collection of comic verse pairing similar-sounding birds and plants (such as the crow and the crocus) through wordplay, illustrated with the author's own drawings. Readers interested in light verse, nonsense poetry, or humorous nature writing may enjoy it.
Robert Williams Wood
Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work inform modern understanding of the physics of ultraviolet light, and made possible myriad uses of UV fluorescence, which became popular after World War I. He published many articles on spectroscopy, phosphorescence, diffraction, and ultraviolet light.
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