Science Books

The Book of Stars

Archie Frederick Collins

The stars are the friends of everyone who knows them. If you have never stood out in the open and watched the stars on a clear night, you have missed the most wonderful sight to be seen from this litt..

Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites

Gustaf Lindstrom

Before proceeding further I shall give a general representation of the shape of the hypostoma. This enigmatic part of the trilobite skeleton resembles as to its outline a heraldic shield being broad a..

The Principles of Biology, Volume 2 (of 2)

Herbert Spencer

The proof sheets of this volume, like those of the last volume, have been looked through by Dr. Hooker and Prof. Huxley; and I have, as before, to thank them for their valuable criticisms, and for the..

Relics of Primeval Life

Sir J. William Dawson

In 1875 he endeavoured to sum up in a popular form what was then known, in a little volume named "The Dawn of Life," which has long been out of print; and in 1893 the matter was referred to in a chapt..

Water Reptiles of the Past and Present

Samuel Wendell Williston

The author has had the opportunity during recent years of critically studying nearly all the reptiles described in the following pages, but, if that were the only source of his information, the accoun..

A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2

Lynn Thorndike

Besides preferring the learning of Arabian and other distant lands to the schools of Gaul, and favoring scientific investigation rather than unquestioning faith, Adelard also sets reason above authori..

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth

John Playfair

It is foreign from the present purpose to enter on any history of the systems that, since the rise of this branch of science, have been invented to explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom. It is ..

The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition

Horace Fletcher

Nature certainly never intended that we should weaken, depress, and distress ourselves in the way that is common to present-day living, as is made evident by the prevalence of discomfort and disease r..