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The Story Of Electricity by John Munro
A schoolboy who rubs a stick of sealing-wax on the sleeve of his jacket, then holds it over dusty shreds or bits of straw to see them fly up and cling to the wax, repeats without knowing it the fundamental experiment of electricity.

History Of The Warfare Of Science With Theology In Christendom
For behind this barrier also the flood is rapidly rising -- the flood of increased knowledge and new thought; and this barrier also, though honeycombed and in many places thin, creates a danger -- danger of a sudden breaking away, distressing and calamitous, sweeping before it not only out worn creeds and noxious dogmas

Alchemy: Ancient And Modern by H. Stanley Redgrove
The basic idea permeating all the alchemistic theories appears to have been this: All the metals (and, indeed, all forms of matter) are one in origin, and are produced by an evolutionary process.

The Black Death and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. Hecker (translated by B. G. Babington)
That Omnipotence which has called the world with all its living creatures into one animated being, especially reveals Himself in the desolation of great pestilences. The powers of creation come into violent collision;

The Evolution Of Modern Medicine by Sir William Osler, Bart., M.D.
SAIL to the Pacific with some Ancient Mariner, and traverse day by day that silent sea until you reach a region never before furrowed by keel where a tiny island, a mere speck on the vast ocean, has just risen from the depths, a little coral reef capped with green, an atoll, a mimic earth, fringed with life, built up through countless ages by life on the remains of life that has passed away. And now, with wings of fancy, join Ianthe in the magic car of Shelley, pass the eternal gates of the flaming ramparts of the world and see his vision:

Faraday As A Discoverer by John Tyndall
It is not my intention to lay before you a life of Faraday in the ordinary acceptation of the term. The duty I have to perform is to give you some notion of what he has done in the world; dwelling incidentally on the spirit in which his work was executed

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Vol 1
The Beginnings of Science by Henry Smith Williams
A History of Science: Vol 2
A History of Science: Vol 3
A History of Science: Vol 4
Now it is patent enough, at first glance, that the veriest savage must have been an observer of the phenomena of nature. But it may not be so obvious that he must also have been a classifier of his observations -- an organizer of knowledge.

... the religion of God is the promoter of truth, the founder of science and knowledge, it is full of goodwill for learned men; it is the civilizer of mankind, the discoverer of the secrets of nature, and the enlightener of the horizons of the world. Abdu'l-Baha

Mars by Percival Lowell
Observation supports this general supposition; for the cloudless character of the Martian skies is precisely what we should look for in a rare air. Clouds are congeries of globules of water or particles of ice buoyed up by the air about them. The smaller these are, the more easily are they buoyed up

The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
"What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"--the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands--is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so wondrous a part.

Man's Place in the Universe by Alfred Russel Wallace
When men attained to sufficient intelligence for speculations as to their own nature and that of the earth on which they lived, they must have been profoundly impressed by the nightly pageant of the starry heavens.

'Stars and Atoms' by Arthur Eddington
The sun belongs to a system containing some 3,000 million stars. The stars are globes comparable in size with the sun, that is to say, of the order of a million miles in diameter. The space for their accommodation is on the most lavish scale. Imagine thirty cricket balls roaming the whole interior of the earth

Scholarship Books

Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven by Immanuel Kant

The Evolution of Man Vol 1 Ernst Haeckel
And Volume 2

The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
The beginning of the victorious career of modern science was very largely due to the making of two stimulating discoveries at the close of the Middle Ages. One was the discovery of the earth: the other the discovery of the universe.

The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte
I continued, moreover, to increase my collection of birds. It was at this time that I fell in with the works of Richard Owen, the great comparative anatomist, and it was perhaps his The Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate System which interested me intensely, that more than anything else decided me to become a pupil of Agassiz.

The Life And Letters Of Charles Darwin Volume 1
Edited By His Son Francis Darwin
A German Editor having written to me for an account of the development of my mind and character with some sketch of my autobiography, I have thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might possibly interest my children or their children. I know that it would have interested me greatly to have read even so short and dull a sketch of the mind of my grandfather, written by himself

Encyclopedia Astronautica
"...the planet's best online space history resource..."

The Life And Letters Of Charles Darwin Volume 2
Edited By His Son Francis Darwin

The Malay Archipelago Volume 1
By Alfred Russel Wallace
From a look at a globe or a map of the Eastern hemisphere, we shall perceive between Asia and Australia a number of large and small islands forming a connected group distinct from those great masses of land, and having little connection with either of them.

The Malay Archipelago Volume 2
By Alfred Russel Wallace
ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which shirt the west coast of the large and almost unknown n island of Gilolo.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert W. Chambers

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Edited By His Son Francis Darwin

The Complete Charles Darwin Collection
all his books writings

The Black Death and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. Hecker

Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin a site dedicated to him

The Phenomenon Of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Geological Observations On South America by Charles Darwin
At Monte Video, I noticed near the town, and along the base of the mount, beds of a living Mytilus, raised some feet above the surface of the Plata: in a similar bed, at a height from thirteen to sixteen feet, M. Isabelle collected eight species, which,1 according to M. d'Orbigny, now live at the mouth of the estuary.

The City Forest by P.A. Yeomans

The Keyline Plan by P.A. Yeomans

The Challenge of Landscape by P.A. Yeomans

Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy

The New Heavens by George Ellery Hale

A Psychological Study by James Sully

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics by

Analytical Sciences by

Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens

Youth and Sex by Mary Scharlieb and F.

Development and Inheritance by Edmund B. Wilson

Inborn Errors of Metabolism by Archibald E. Garrod

A List of Science Books at Penn

Great Astronomers by R. S. Ball
In the ensuing chapters we have endeavoured to sketch the lives and the work of the great philosophers, by whose labours the science of astronomy has been created.

The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
that science is full of beautiful pictures, of real poetry, and of wonder-working fairies; and what is more, I promise you they shall be true fairies, whom you will love just as much when you are old and greyheaded as when you are young;

The Four Epochs of Woman's Life by Anna M. Galbraith
The child should spend as much of its life as possible in the open air, and in the warm months live out-of-doors. City children should be taken to the seashore or country to spend several months every summer.

The Cornell Library Historical Mathematics Monographs

Aristotle On the Heavens
The question as to the nature of the whole, whether it is infinite in size or limited in its total mass, is a matter for subsequent inquiry. We will now speak of those parts of the whole which are specifically distinct.

Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Serviss
The Galaxy, or Milky Way, surrounds the borders of our island in space like a stellar garland, and when openings appear in it they are, by contrast, far more impressive than the general darkness of the interstellar expanse seen in other directions.

Is Mars Habitable? by Alfred Russel Wallace
In 1894, after a careful search for the best atmospheric conditions, Mr. Lowell established his observatory near the town of Flagstaff in Arizona, in a very dry and uniform climate, and at an elevation of 7300 feet above the sea. He then possessed a fine equatorial telescope of 18 inches aperture and 26 feet focal length, besides two smaller ones, all of the best quality.

Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven by Immanuel Kant
I summon up all the material stuff of all worlds in a universal confusion and create out of this a perfect chaos. According to the established laws of attraction, I see matter developing, and it modifies its motion through repulsion.

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Life in the Universe
The sciences of today are bridges to reality; if then they lead not to reality, naught remains but fruitless illusion. By the one true God! If learning be not a means of access to Him, the Most Manifest, it is nothing but evident loss.

Books on Mathematics

The Synergetics on the Web Project Buckminster Fuller

A Meeting With The Universe
the universe seemed simple, orderly, peaceful, and well-understood. The Earth stood motionless at the center. The Sun, Moon, and planets circled it at no great distance. Slightly further away, the fixed stars were tiny points of light mounted on a sphere of pure crystal. It was a small, comfortable, and reassuring universe, and Man was at the center of everything.

Evolution of the Solar System NASA History Office

Dewey B. Larson: The Collected Works

Studies in the Psychology of Sex Vol 1
by Havelock Ellis
Vol 2
Vol 3
Vol 4
Vol 5
Vol 6

Neglected crops 1492 from a different perspective

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