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This image does not showcase a diagram, rather just a piece of the text. However, this does not diminish the importance of this excerpt. Here the author clearly states that the power given to animals is given by God, as if that is an indisputable,…

This is a cut and dry example of what this book excels at, especially in regards to its diagrams. This depiction of a pump is clear, concise, and simple. It does little to overcomplicate anything and any young reader should have little to no…

The showcased diagram of the child on the slope comes close after the introduction of the pendulum and serves as a counter example to everything discussed in the description of the pendulum diagram. It is overly complex and artistic where it doesn't…

When you explain things to children, complex terms and ideas are digestible only when they are described in a non-complex manner. The author is clearly going for the simplistic approach throughout this book, both with her simplistic sentence…

This is yet another diagram that the author uses to visualize what a lever is. Swift spends quite a time hammering home the idea of levers. This is possibly because in her experience they might be a somewhat confounding topic for young children.…

When the author uses the featured diagram, she is in the midst of driving home the point of the parts and uses of the simple lever. To achieve this she uses several examples, of which one is a Scale. This type of scale hasn't been in use for a long…

The section from which this image is drawn dealt with categorizing the types of levers. One might easily confused by the description of one lever category: "a lever which has the power between the weight and the fulcrum". This diagram gives a very…

As one can see this image depicts an archer pulling back on a bowstring. The diagram here serves two major purposes. Firstly, it allows those readers who might not know what a bow and arrow is follow along. And secondly, it allows the reader to…

This is diagram utilized in describing what the author terms "curvilinear motion". If you're wondering what that is, you're not alone. It is described as motion along a "curved line", which sounds potentially oxymoronic to the modern physics student.…

In this section of the book the author is describing the different classes of motion that we are generally concerned with. This diagram is a depiction of the classification of circular motion. This is a small simple diagram, showing that while in…