Science Books
Inside Illinois - Mineral Resources
AnonymousIllinois is about 385 miles long from north to south and about 218 miles wide. It has an area of 55,947 square miles. The average elevation of the state is about 600 feet above sea level. Charles Moun..
A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America
Jacob GreenThe head of the trilobite is also generally divided into three parts: the middle is called the front, or forehead; and the lateral portions the cheeks. In most cases, a projecting tubercle, or knob, i..
The Cosmic Courtship
Julian HawthorneMiriam was not unfamiliar with these subterranean regions. Illuminated by the electron light, and ventilated by the carbon process, and kept at an even temperature of seventy degrees Fahrenheit, they ..
Our Nuclear Future
Edward TellerThis book has been written for the layman who has no knowledge about atoms, bombs and radioactivity. He knows that the world is made of atoms, that bombs might destroy it and that radioactivity could ..
The Moon - A Popular Treatise
Garrett Putman ServissOne serene evening, when the full moon, rising slowly above the tree tops, began to spread over the landscape that peculiar radiance which, by half revealing and half concealing, by softening all outl..
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Bernard de FontenelleWe may find an eulogium on our author in l'Historie de l'Académie des Sciences for 1757, in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Belles-Lettres, and in a work written entirely on the subject, published by T..
The Ivory King
Charles Frederick HolderIn the present volume, I have endeavored to present as much of the history of the elephant as is compatible with popular interest, treating the animal in all its relations to man, and the economic que..
The Life of the Grasshopper
Jean-Henri FabreThe child is essentially conservative. Custom and traditions become indestructible once they are confided to the archives of his memory. We owe to him the celebrity of the Cicada, whose woes he stamme..