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
Long before digital media replaced direct encounters with the natural world, Victorian science communicator Arabella...
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
Long before digital screens dominated childhood leisure, pioneering nature educators understood that the most powerful...
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
Long before modern nature documentaries simplified ecology for young minds, early twentieth-century educator Margaret Warner...
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...