Category Archives: Science
The Fairy Tales of Science
Author(s): John Cargill Brough This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by...
The Botanic Garden, a Poem in Two Parts. Part 1
Author(s): Erasmus Darwin Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was also a famous naturalist in his own...
World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States
Author(s): Eva March Tappan This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The...
On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)
Author(s): Titus Lucretius Carus Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things...
Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse
Author(s): Various In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in...
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers
Author(s): Robert Williams Wood How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A...
Ways of Wood Folk
Author(s): William J. Long Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the...
Trees, Shown to the Children
Author(s): C. E. Smith A charming and informative volume about the trees one might find...
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volumes 1-3
Author(s): Isaac Asimov This is a short booklet on science fact commissioned by the U....
Within the Deep
Author(s): R. Cadwallader Smith Presented in the form of lessons, R. Cadwallader Smith vividly portrays...
Young Folks’ Library
Author(s): Various Young Folks’ Library, Selections from the Choicest LiteratureTHE MARVELS OF NATURE BY EDWARD...
Wild Life in Woods and Fields
Author(s): Arabella B. Buckley Wild Life in Woods and Fields by Arabella B. Buckley is...
Water Wonders Every Child Should Know
Author(s): Jean M. Thompson Water: essential for life and in much of the world, we...
Trees Every Child Should Know
Author(s): Julia Ellen Rogers The best time to being to study the trees is to-day!...
Treatise on Light
Author(s): Christiaan Huygens Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest...
Wilderness Babies
Author(s): Julia Augusta Schwartz This book tells the stories of some of the baby mammals...
Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures
Author(s): Arabella B. Buckley “The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young...
The Secret of Everyday Things
Author(s): Jean-Henri Fabre The clearness, simplicity, and charm of the great French naturalist’s style are...
The Woodpeckers
Author(s): Fannie Hardy Eckstorm The Woodpeckers is a wonderful introduction to the world of bird...
The Story Book of Science
Author(s): Jean-Henri Fabre The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in...
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
Author(s): Jane Andrews “You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous “old woman who...
Topics
Author(s): Aristotle The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle’s six texts on logic which...
The Natural History Volume 4
Author(s): Pliny the Elder Naturalis Historia (Latin for “Natural History”) is an encyclopedia published circa...
The Romance of Modern Photography
Author(s): Charles R. Gibson It is not the author’s purpose in the present volume to...
The Light of Egypt, vol II
Author(s): Thomas H. Burgoyne “The Light of Egypt” will be found to be an Occult...
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Author(s): Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo Da VinciPREFACEA singular fatality has ruled the...
The Insect Folk
Author(s): Margaret Warner Morley Through delightful outings with her students, a teacher introduces her class...
The Outline of Science Vol. 3
Author(s): J. Arthur Thomson The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in...
The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser
Author(s): Ray Vaughn Pierce The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser In Plain English, Or, Medicine...
The Peaceful Atom
Author(s): Bernice Kohn Hunt In this children’s science book from the early 1960s, the concept...