Philip’s Experiments, or, Physical Science at Home (1898), episode 8

On the latest episode of the podcast with readings so interesting they put you to sleep, our eighth installment from the 1898 book “Philip’s Experiments, or, Physical Science at Home,” by John Trowbridge.

In this episode, father is delighted to see that his homeschooling has formed Philip into an interesting traveling companion, delighting other guests at the Swiss resort with his sketches and observations of mountain wildflowers. If you stay awake long enough, you’ll hear a discussion about whether a college graduate could figure out how to navigate a ship at sea if, hypothetically, the captain were murdered and the first mate incompetent.

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