Science
- Explorations in Nature and Science
- Chronicles of Scientific Discovery
- Exploring Health Through Science
- Explorations in Science and Thought
Titan Of Chasms
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…
A Catechism of Familiar Things
This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been careful…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Little Masterpieces of Science
The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces of Science edited by George Iles and published in 1902. It includes es…
On the Elementary Electrical Charge
The experiments herewith reported were undertaken with the view of introducing certain improvements into the oil-drop method of determining …
Thunder and Lightning
It would be an interesting thing to make a careful study once a year, towards the end of the summer, of the habits and customs of thunder an…
Submerged Forests
Submerged Forests, a volume in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, is a study of the land beneath the coastal areas and …
Pierre Curie
This biography of the noted French physicist Pierre Curie was written by his wife, the renowned physicist Marie Curie. In it, she not only c…
Miscellanea Curiosa
"The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous ex…
Civilization and Climate
This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…
The Outline of Science
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks
"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story…
Scientific American Supplement
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, havinge launched its first publication in …
The Atom and the Ocean
This is one of the publications in the “Understanding the Atom” Series from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Topics covered include an o…
Madam How and Lady Why
Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book ha…
Light Science for Leisure Hours
In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with a…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…
Twentieth Century Inventions
This work from 1901 predicts what technological developments will manifest in the twentieth century. The author, a technical journalist, pre…
Water Wonders Every Child Should Know
Water: essential for life and in much of the world, we take it for granted. In this work, Jean Thompson explains various aspects of the wate…