Science
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- Explorations in Science and Thought
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes
Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, f…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--carniv…
The Ocean of Air
This is an immensely readable book explaining anything to do with air - the atmosphere, wind and clouds, and life. This 1896 explanation has…
Half Hours With the Lower Animals
This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word "animal" with fish, amphibians, re…
Histology of the Blood
This is a textbook on the science of blood and bloodwork by (1908) Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Should appeal to hematologists, phl…
Little Masterpieces of Science
A collection of essays on various inventions and scientific discoveries, this volume of Little Masterpieces of Science from 1902 includes to…
Generation of Animals
Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium) Bo…
Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures
"The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, The Fairyland of Science. …
Our Vanishing Wild Life
Our Vanishing Wild Life is a passionate call to action from William T. Hornaday, a pioneering conservationist, who confronts the alarming de…
Is Mars Habitable?
In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built…
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …
Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability
Welcome to 6.041/6.431, a subject on the modeling and analysis of random phenomena and processes, including the basics of statistical infere…
On the Parts of Animals
On the Parts of Animals (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ ΜΟΡΙΩΝ; Latin: De Partibus Animalium) by Aristotle (ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ). The first book asks whether anim…
Scientific American Supplement
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
Micrographia
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…
The Peaceful Atom
In this children's science book from the early 1960s, the concept of atoms and the science behind them is introduced. The book recounts the …
Fourth National Climate Assessment
Are you interested in learning about climate change and its current and future effects on the United States? The Fourth National Climate Ass…
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be desc…
The Elements of Mammalogy
The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This s…