Category Archives: Science
How to Do Chemical Tricks
Author(s): A. T. Anderson While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions...
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2
Author(s): Hans Gross Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining...
Pioneers of Science
Author(s): Oliver Lodge This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the...
Einstein and the Universe
Author(s): Charles Nordmann “M. Nordmann has presented Einstein’s principle in words which lift the average...
Curiosities of the Sky
Author(s): Garrett P. Serviss Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it...
Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery
Author(s): Anonymous This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged...
Generation of Animals
Author(s): Aristotle Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως...
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
Author(s): Agnes Arber Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals...
Histology of the Blood
Author(s): Paul EhrlichAdolf Lazarus This is a textbook on the science of blood and bloodwork...
Botany, The Story of Plant Life
Author(s): Julia McNair Wright Botany, The Story of Plant Life, is a charming book explaining...
Chapters on Evolution
Author(s): Andrew Wilson Dr. Andrew Wilson FRSE was a Scottish physiologist and zoologist and lecturer...
Opticks
When Sir Isaac Newton directed a thin beam of sunlight through a glass prism in...
Letters on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy, Volume 1 (Letters to a German Princess)
When one of history’s most brilliant mathematicians turns his attention to explaining the physical mechanics...
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
Author(s): Gaston Maspero A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable...
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation
Author(s): Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in...
Radioisotopes in Medicine
Author(s): Earl W. PhelanUnited States Atomic Energy Commission Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet...
Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of ‘Scott’s Last Expedition’ (Version 2)
Author(s): Robert Falcon Scott Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is...
Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind
Author(s): William Hanna Thomson One of the earlier works on brain science, relating what was...
Our Vanishing Wild Life
Author(s): William T. Hornaday We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of...
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3
Author(s): Hans Gross Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining...
Nature’s Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism
Author(s): Elisha Gray Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American...
Introduction to the Birds of Pennsylvania
Author(s): George Miksch Sutton George Miksch Sutton was a world renowned ornithologist whose art and...
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
Author(s): William Carpenter A bit of pseudo-science that will baffle, confuse, and amaze! Until the...
Radioisotopes in Medicine (Version 2)
Author(s): Earl W. Phelan This is a book in the “Understanding the Atom Series” from...
Our Journey to Sinai
Author(s): Agnes von Blomberg Bensly Fortress-walled Saint Catherine’s monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been...
Medieval Contributions to Modern Civilisation
Author(s): Various The mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation, which are the theme of this book,...
Movement & Progression of Animals
Author(s): Aristotle Movement of Animals (or On the Motion of Animals; Greek Περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως;...
Meteorology, On the Universe & On Breath
Author(s): Aristotle Meteorology (Greek: Μετεωρολογικά; Latin: Meteorologica or Meteora) by AristotleTranslated by Erwin Wentworth Webster...
History of Biology
Author(s): Louis Compton Miall A history of biology from ancient times to Darwin and Pasteur...
Bacteria in Daily Life
Author(s): Grace Coleridge Frankland The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of...