Category Archives: Science
Walnut Growing in Oregon
Author(s): Jacob Calvin Cooper Although published to promote the business of walnut production, this short...
Science and the Modern World
Author(s): Alfred North Whitehead It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy...
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology
Author(s): William Ruschenberger The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology is one in a Series of...
Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885
Author(s): Various The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United...
Sidelights on Relativity
Author(s): Albert Einstein Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address...
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
Author(s): John Mastin This is a good basic introduction to gemstones and their analysis. Admittedly...
Insect Stories
Author(s): Vernon Kellogg These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us....
The Romance of Modern Geology
Author(s): Edwin Sharpe Grew From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the...
The Book of the National Parks
Author(s): Robert Sterling Yard Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist....
The Romance of Modern Chemistry
Author(s): James C. Philip A fascinating look back at the state of the art of...
Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners
Author(s): Agnes Giberne For many years I have had it in my mind to endeavor...
Insect Adventures
Author(s): Jean-Henri FabreLouise Seymour Hasbrouck Zimm This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira...
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Author(s): Charles Darwin The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book...
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others
Author(s): Jeannette Augustus MarksJulia Moody These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other...
The American Bee Journal, Vol. I, No. 2, February 1861
Author(s): Various The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in...
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
Author(s): Various The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United...
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Author(s): Charles Darwin Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work...
The Life of the Fly, With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography
Author(s): Jean-Henri Fabre The title tells all, along with other observations on insect life from...
The Elements of Geology
Author(s): William Ruschenberger Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of...
The Elements of Ornithology
Author(s): William Ruschenberger The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of...
Understanding Climatic Change
Author(s): US Comm. for the Global Atmospheric Research Program Understanding Climatic Change – A Program...
The World’s Lumber Room
Author(s): Selina Gaye If this book were written today, it would be called “The Story...
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
Author(s): Various The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United...
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
Author(s): Roald Amundsen Volume II of Roald Amundsen’s The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six...
The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect
Author(s): Herbert Wildon Carr The main purpose of this book is to show the historical...
Submerged Forests
Author(s): Clement Reid Submerged Forests, a volume in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature...
The Story of Eclipses
Author(s): George F. Chambers Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of...
Stories of Inventors
Author(s): Russell Doubleday Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of...
Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary
Author(s): Arthur Henry Patterson Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist,...
Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It
Author(s): Richard Mead This is a work written about the plague in France and how...