This great book is available on-line: You guys will really like it:
https://archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist
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Of course, that book is dated 1965 or so. The Amateur Scientist went on for a long time, though I can’t remember when C.L. Strong gave it up or died. In the nineties I remember people talking about a book (or maybe it was a CDROM) that collected ll the columns through the its complete run. That wouldn’t be out of copyright, though. Michael