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Science Saturday

This week’s science lesson is “Jets in Action” from the 1962 edition of  Exploring Science Six, the final publication in a progressive six-volume elementary science-education series by the Boston-based textbook publisher Allyn & Bacon, written by Walter A. Thurber and edited by Paul E. Smith. The chapter on jets details various jet propulsion systems and even presents a conceptual nuclear-powered aircraft. At the end, the young student is presented with six comprehension questions, some of which we could hardly answer without reading the text. Thank goodness we hold the Exploring Science series!

The illustrations shown here are by Albert and Violet Jousset, George Hardy, and Robert Candy. The Exploring Science series is part of our Historical Curriculum Collection. 

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Science Saturday

First published in 1955 by Boston-based textbook publisher Allyn & Bacon, Exploring Science was a six-book series written by Walter A. Thurber and edited by Paul E. Smith. The series was geared toward early elementary school students and each book covers a wide range of concepts, from natural sciences to physics and chemistry. The series was reprinted and revised many times between 1955 and its final publication in 1975.

Shown above (image 1 and 2) is the front, spine, and back covers of the 1957 edition of book six, and the front cover of the 1962 edition of the same. Illustrations by Philip B. Parsons and Charles E. B. Bernard are found in each printing, with illustrations for the new chapters in the 1962 edition, “Electromagnets” and “Jets In Action,” provided by Albert and Violet Jousset, George Hardy, and Robert Candy. Here in Special Collections, we have exemplars from all six books in the series as part of our Historical Curriculum Collection, but book six is the one we have in multiple editions. It’s interesting to see the changes, both in design and content, between the two books. 

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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sometimes i just cry over the universe and science and everything because it's all so big and beautiful and impossible and then my friends support me for some reason so i cry over that too so many emotions