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Author(s): A. T. Anderson While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions...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
Author(s): Sir Isaac Newton The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670...
Letters on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy, Volume 1 (Letters to a German Princess)
Author(s): Leonhard Euler The Letters of Euler to a German Princess have acquired over all...
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...