Science

A History of Astronomy

by Walter W. Bryant Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occu…

Icarus

by Bertrand Russell Read by S. Emily Lee 4.7
In this short book, Russell speculates on the effect of the progress of science in the future in a vast array of subjects, ranging from phys…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Explore a diverse array of thought-provoking essays and reports in this engaging collection of short nonfiction works. Curated by dedicated …

Book of the Damned

by Charles Hoy Fort Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

by Sir Francis Galton Read by Leon Harvey 5
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Ricardo Fernández Montalvo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for he that disputeth thy words shall put them unto proof." Proverbs of Fai…

Generation of Animals

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.3
Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek: Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (Peri Zoion Geneseos); Latin: De Generatione Animalium) Bo…

The Andes and The Amazon

by James Orton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…

The Story of Eclipses

by George F. Chambers Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing …

A Text-book of Assaying

by Cornelius Beringer, Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer and John Jacob Beringer Read by Peter Yearsley 5
This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…

Microbe Hunters

by Paul De Kruif Read by Warren Kati 4.5
Microbe Hunters provides dramatized accounts of eleven early pioneers of microbiology and their important discoveries. Beginning in 1650 wit…

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

by Andrew Dickson White Read by John Greenman 5
The 21st Century, so far, has seen a dramatic and widespread questioning of "Science", much of it from "Evangelicals". B…

Little Masterpieces of Science

by George Iles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Another in the series "Little Masterpieces of Science" edited by George Iles, Mind is a collection of articles and book chapters t…

Is Mars Habitable?

by Alfred Russel Wallace Read by Caliban 4.3
In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built…

Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures

by Arabella B. Buckley Read by J. M. Smallheer 5
"The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, The Fairyland of Science. …

The Outline of Science

by J. Arthur Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

by Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.8
Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

by Alexander Von Humboldt Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.8
In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at L…

Histology of the Blood

by Paul Ehrlich Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is a textbook on the science of blood and bloodwork by (1908) Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Should appeal to hematologists, phl…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The eighth volume is on Pure Mathematics written by L. Leland Locke and on Math…

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