Vol.13

Otona no Kagaku (Science for Adults) Magazine vol.13

Modified A4/106 pages/On sale September 28, 2006
●Supplement: Kaleidoscope Projector

※NOTE: All magazine contents are in Japanese. English versions are not available.

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In this issue: Special Feature on the Scientist’s Beloved Kaleidoscope

Table of Contents

Tamaki Ogawa had some fun with the supplement:
Projection Party at 26 O'clock

Special Feature: The Scientist’s Beloved Kaleidoscope

By David Brewster, the scientist known as “Sir”:
The Invention of a Mighty Philosophical Toy

— How a philosophical toy turned into work of art —
The Kaleidoscope Chronicles

190 years since Brewster’s research:
Gakken Edition: Studies on Kaleidoscopes
— Surprsingly unknown kaleidscope secrets —

A study manga you can get in four pages:
The Life of Brewster

Illustrations: Tokuo Yokota

Entranced by the Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope makers: Mitsuru and Yuriko Yoda
Kaleidoscope maker: Toshiro Sumi
Kaleidoscope collector: Shinichi Okuma
Kaleidoscope Mukashikan proprietor: Michi Araki

Fumiya Fujii interview:
Fumiya, What Do You See with
the Kaleidoscope in the Supplement?

An Eyesight Revolution and the Pleasures of the Kaleidoscope

From object to light source,
set the kaleidoscope up to your own specifications:
Supplement Kaleidoscope Test Lab

Build it with Your Children!! The Scientist’s Stand-up Kaleidoscope Classroom
"The Looking Box of Uncanny Art"

The Structure of the Dream that Traps Light:
Photonic Fractals

Limitless: Another concept of infinite you don't know about
Editorial supervisor: Shigeki Noya

A course on modifying the Otona no Kagaku model “Vacuum Tube Radio ver. 2”:
Build a Superheterodyne Vacuum Tube Radio!

Science column: Adult assertions
Yoshinori Shimizu, Fujio Nakano, Leiji Matsumoto,
Issei Kanazawa, Serkan Anilir

The Story of Constructing the Old and New Tokyo Towers

Maywa Denki's “My Little Lab”:
OK, Let’s Go, Putting on that Skin

Gabin Ito’s Homework for Adults:
vol.09 — I Have Never Been Completely Hypnotized.

The Origins of Bioinformatic Science:
No. 3, 1937: Yoshio Nishio and Niels Bohr

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