Science
- Explorations in Nature and Science
- Chronicles of Scientific Discovery
- Exploring Health Through Science
- Explorations in Science and Thought
Mars and Its Canals
In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark n…
A Problem in Modern Ethics
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
The World's Lumber Room
If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …
The Science - History of the Universe
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity wri…
Icarus
In this short book, Russell speculates on the effect of the progress of science in the future in a vast array of subjects, ranging from phys…
A History of Astronomy
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occu…
The Science - History of the Universe
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The second volume is on Geology written by Harold E. Slade and W. E. Ferguson. …
The Story of Eclipses
Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing …
History of Chemistry
A history of the advances in chemistry, in the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry from the mid-nineteenth century through t…
Masters of Space
This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, a…
The Andes and The Amazon
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War offers a critical examination of the potential consequences of nuclear conflict on a global scale. This ins…
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to …
The Extermination of the American Bison
The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the gra…
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology serves as a foundational resource for understanding the intersection of medicine and criminal inves…
The Bubonic Plague
Dr. Rai Bahadur A. Mitra who was the Chief Medical Officer in Kashmir presents a short treatise on the bubonic plague. The book ranges from …
The Autobiography of an Electron
"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…
Science and the Modern World
It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…
Natural Theology
In this early nineteenth-century classic, William Paley assesses how our understanding of nature reflects characteristics of its creator. Fi…
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more evide…