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
Long before popular science writing became a staple of modern publishing, Paul de Kruif transformed...
Book of the Damned
Author(s): Charles Hoy Fort The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work...
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Long before modern cognitive science mapped the mechanics of memory, an Austrian neurologist posited that...
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...