Das Wasser in der Natur und im Dienste des Menschen

Abstract

To discuss in any detail the occurrence of water in its many natural appearances and in its human relationships as well, would be impossible in so small a book. Therefore its eleven short chapters deal in a popular and simple manner with the more striking characteristics and influences of rain—of seas, lakes, and rivers, of snow and ice. Plant life enters the story when the fall of the leaf in autumn exemplifies the effect of a shortened water-supply, and microscopic animal life is revealed as the marvellous content of water-drops, but here the illustrations are very crude. A third of the book deals with drinking water, mineral waters, and water as a source of power, and, in connexion with each, with the apparatus by which man has harnessed them for his own purposes.

Das Wasser in der Natur und im Dienste des Menschen.

Dr.

Hans

Heinze

Von. (Der Weg zur Natur.) Pp. xi + 164. (Freiburg im B.: Herder und Co., G.m.b.H., 1930.) 3.60 gold marks.