Category Archives: Science
Hereditary Genius
Author(s): Sir Francis Galton A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by...
Natural Theology
Author(s): William Paley In this early nineteenth-century classic, William Paley assesses how our understanding of...
Birds of the Air
Author(s): Arabella B. Buckley Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to...
Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root
Author(s): Alice A. Ball The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum or The Chemical Constituents of...
On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower Animals
Author(s): E. Ray Lankester A prize was recently offered in the University of Oxford for...
Metaphysics
Author(s): Aristotle Metaphysics (Ancient Greek: ΜΕΤΑ ΤΑ ΦΥΣΙΚΑ; Latin: METAPHYSICA; English: After the Physics) discusses...
Celebrated Crimes
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas Dumas’s ‘Celebrated Crimes’ was not written for children. The novelist has spared...
My Inventions and Other Works
Author(s): Nikola Tesla Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the...
Constructive Beekeeping
Author(s): Ed Clark The author explores the effects of condensation and evaporation as they relate...
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
Author(s): John Burroughs Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a...
Half Hours With the Lower Animals
Author(s): Charles Holder This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most...
Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States
Author(s): US Global Change Research Program Are you interested in learning about climate change and...
Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Version 2)
Author(s): J. Arthur Thomson The Outline of Science, Volume 1 was written specifically with the...
Golden mean to 5000 digits
Author(s): Jerry BonnellRobert Nemiroff The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according...
Infection and Immunity
Author(s): George M. Sternberg Infection and Immunity with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious...
Brief History of Forestry
Author(s): Bernhard Eduard Fernow An accessible, comprehensive summary of the science and art of forestry,...
Our Atomic World: The Story of Atomic Energy
Author(s): C. Jackson Craven This booklet is part of the “Understanding the Atom Series” published...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
Author(s): Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other...
Man and Nature on the Broads
Author(s): Arthur Henry Patterson From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations,...
Life of the Spider
Author(s): Jean-Henri Fabre Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born...
Meteorology; or Weather Explained
Author(s): J. G. M’Pherson Weather Explained: Fog, clouds, rain, haze, thunder, cyclones, dew point and...
Florida Trails
Author(s): Winthrop Packard American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given us such accounts as Wild Pastures,...
By Pond and River
Author(s): Arabella B. Buckley In By Pond and River, another of Arabella Buckley’s wonderful science...
Is Mars Habitable?
Author(s): Alfred Russel Wallace In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to...
Lasers
Author(s): Hal Hellman Among great technologic developments of the twentieth century has to be that...
Microbe Hunters
Author(s): Paul de Kruif Microbe Hunters provides dramatized accounts of eleven early pioneers of microbiology...
Book of the Damned
Author(s): Charles Hoy Fort The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work...
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Author(s): Sigmund Freud Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline...
Light Science for Leisure Hours
Author(s): Richard A. Proctor In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present...
Principles of Geology
Author(s): Charles Lyell Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of...