Science Books

The Herschels and Modern Astronomy

Agnes Mary Clerke

Sir John Herschel’s life has yet to be written. The published materials for it are scanty, although they have been reinforced by the inclusion in the late Mr. Graves’s “Life of Sir William Rowan Hamil..

Radio-Activity

Ernest Rutherford

The rapid advance of our knowledge of radio-activity has been dependent on the information already gained by research into the electric properties of gases. The action possessed by the radiations from..

Structure and Functions of the Body

Annette Fiske

Anatomy is the study of the physical structure and physiology the study of the normal functions of the human body. Chemical Constitution of the Body.—In the body only twenty elements have been found. ..

Some Historic Trees

Anonymous

Probably the most ancient of these living links connecting the present and the past was the Big Tree that stood on the bank of the Genesee River, near the village of Geneseo, New York. When first seen..

Deeds Barn and the Self Starter

Anonymous

Deeds was absorbed in many responsibilities at the NCR and could not devote the necessary time to the perfection of the motor. He wanted a bright young electrical engineer to whom the electrification ..

A monograph on sleep and dream - their physiology and psychology

Edward W. Cox

In dealing with a subject so old and yet so new, I can do little more than suggest explanations of phenomena. I do not venture to assert them. Those suggestions are submitted to the reader to induce h..

The New Astronomy

S. P. Langley

The sun, as we shall learn later, is a star, and not a particularly large star. It is, as has been said, “only a private in the host of heaven,” but it is one of that host; it is one of those glitteri..

Intelligence in Plants and Animals

Thomas G. Gentry

Our libraries are to-day quite affluent in books that are the handmaids of natural science. Michelet and Hugh Miller, in their day, opened glorious new worlds before a rising generation, and that gene..