Category Archives: Science
The Science – History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany
Author(s): Francis Rolt-Wheeler Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is...
The American Bee Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 3 , January 19, 1881
Author(s): Various The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)
Author(s): Edwin Abbott Abbott This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first...
The Chemistry of Cookery
Author(s): W. Mattieu Williams This book, written in the late 1800s, is a book of...
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22, 1888
Author(s): Various The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United...
The Story of Electricity
Author(s): John Munro In the book’s preface, the author writes: “Let anyone stop to consider...
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1
Author(s): Charles Darwin A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published...
Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane
Author(s): Alfred Wegener Dies ist das erste Buch, in dem Alfred Wegener seine Theorie der...
Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
Author(s): William Diller Matthew America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild...
In Time Of Emergency: A Citizen’s Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters
Author(s): US Office of Civil Defense A major emergency affecting a large number of people...
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel
Author(s): Margaret Herschel For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she...
Organic Evolution
Author(s): Richard Swann Lull Organic Evolution is a college textbook that describes the mechanism of...
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1
Author(s): Hans Gross Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining...
Discourses: Biological and Geological
Author(s): Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was...
Familiar Letters on Chemistry
Author(s): Justus von Liebig Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major...
Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies
Author(s): David Todd The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from...
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
Author(s): Alva Agee This book is not a technical treatise and is designed only to...
Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
Author(s): Frederick Walker Mott From the Preface: “The contents of this little book formed the...
Canyons of the Colorado
Author(s): John Wesley Powell John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist...
General View of Positivism
Author(s): Auguste Comte Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in...
Captain Cook
Author(s): Walter Besant James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal...
Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It
Author(s): William Walker Atkinson An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our...
Kepler
Author(s): Walter W. Bryant This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what...
Radioactive Substances
Author(s): Marie Curie Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and...
Climatic Changes. Their Nature and Causes
Author(s): Ellsworth Huntington Evidence for historical changes in the geography of Earth’s climate, and a...
Little Masterpieces of Science – The Skies and The Earth
Author(s): George Iles The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces...
Dragons of the Air
Author(s): Harry Seeley Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur” (“Terrible Reptile” or “Fearfully Great...
Kingdom of the Heavens
Author(s): Charles Nordmann Thought is the most swift and subtle of vehicles. Let us therefore...
Our Feathered Friends
Author(s): Elizabeth GrinnellJoseph Grinnell This volume displays the romance of birds in beautiful prose and...
Cloud Studies
Author(s): Arthur William Clayden Classification of clouds, and meteorological condition of how they are formed....