Category Archives: Science
The Andes and The Amazon
Author(s): James Orton This book, with the subtitle “Across the Continent of South America” describes...
The Monadology
Author(s): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best...
The Romance of Modern Astronomy
Author(s): Hector Macpherson From the series, The Library of Romance, the reader is introduced in...
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I)
Author(s): Roald Amundsen Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in...
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
Author(s): Various The Scientific American claims to be the oldest continuously published periodical in the...
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
Author(s): Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate...
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1
Author(s): Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history,...
Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
Author(s): Charles F. LummisJohn Wesley PowellCharles A. Higgins This is a 1906 collection of three...
Wood Wanderings
Author(s): Winthrop Packard American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the...
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Author(s): United States Army Corps of Engineers This is the official report, published nearly 11...
Travels to Oaxaca
Author(s): Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye...
The Science – History of the Universe Vol. 4: Chemistry
Author(s): Francis Rolt-Wheeler Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The fourth volume is...
Smithsonian Institution – United States National Museum – Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology
Author(s): Various Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum...
Volcanoes and Vulcanology (1885-1917)
Author(s): Various This is a collection of short scientific articles on the study of volcanoes...
General Science
Author(s): Bertha M. Clark GENERAL SCIENCEBY BERTHA M. CLARK, PH.D.PREFACEThis book is not intended to...
Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity
Author(s): Herbert Wildon Carr Since the publication of this book, a little more than a...
Die Helden des Dampfes
Author(s): Karl May Der dreiteilige Aufsatz über Die Helden des Dampfes wurde mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit...
The Outline of Science, Vol 4
Author(s): J. Arthur Thomson The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in...
The Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo)
Author(s): J. Arthur Thomson In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into...
The American Bee Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1861
Author(s): Various The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in...
The Elements of Entomology
Author(s): William Ruschenberger The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of...
Sleeping Sickness
Author(s): Fleming Mant Sandwith In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is...
The World of Sound
Author(s): Sir William Henry Bragg The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before...
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Author(s): Edward J. Ruppelt ‘Straight from the horse’s mouth’, as they say. Edward Ruppelt was...
Farthest North
Author(s): Fridtjof Nansen Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram”,...
The Extermination of the American Bison
Author(s): William T. Hornaday The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American...
The “The Flu”: A Brief History of Influenza in U. S. America, Europe, Hawaii
Author(s): A. Mouritz PREFACE This Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of...
Chronicles of America Volume 09 – Colonial Folkways
Author(s): Charles Morris This work according to the subtitle is “a chronicle of American life...
The Romance of Mining
Author(s): Archibald Williams Any writer on mining in its general aspect is, when casting about...
The Chemical History of A Candle
Author(s): Michael Faraday The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures...