Science Books

The Dominion of the Air - The Story of Aerial Navigation

John M. Bacon

The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation is an aeronautics books written by Brigadier General John Mosby Bacon, who was an American general of the United States Volunteers. He..

Bird Stories

Edith M. Patch

Bird Stories is a zoology book on birds for children written by Edith Marion Patch, an American entomologist and author of: Dame Bug and Her Babies, Bird Stories, Desert Neighbors, Food Catalogue..

A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Works

Thomas H. Huxley

A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. Lecture VI. (of VI.),..

How it Works

Archibald Williams

How it Works is a book for dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use.How does it work? Th..

Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance

Harlan Ullman

Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance is a book on military science written by Harlan Ullman and James P. Wade. Author's Forward:We are in the early stages of what promises to be an..

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Robert Chambers

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.Excerpts:It is familiar knowledge that the earth which we inhabit is a glob..

Chocolate - or, An Indian Drinke

Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma

Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called _The New Disease_; Fluxes, ..

Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances

Joseph Black

Black's Paper entitled "Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances" was read in June 1755, and was first published in "Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary..