Earth Sciences
Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1
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Edmond Halley
"The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous ex…
San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake
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William Henry Irwin, Willi Irwin and Will Irwin
As all but Martians know (and who knows, perhaps even they), the city of San Francisco, California, was destroyed by massive earthquake and …
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
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Alva Agee
This book is not a technical treatise and is designed only to point out the plain, every-day facts in the natural scheme of making and keepi…
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…
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Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Volcanoes and Vulcanology (1885-1917)
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Various
This is a collection of short scientific articles on the study of volcanoes and related seismic activity published in Knowledge, A Monthly R…
A Text-book of Assaying
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Cornelius Beringer, Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer and Cornelius Beringer And John Jacob Beringer
This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…
Micrographia
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Robert Hooke
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…
The Life of a Fossil Hunter
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Charles Sternberg
Charles Sternberg was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils…
Meteorology, On the Universe & On Breath
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Aristotle
Meteorology (Greek: Μετεωρολογικά; Latin: Meteorologica or Meteora) by Aristotle Translated by Erwin Wentworth Webster before he fell in act…
Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in t…
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USGCRP, Usgcrp and Us Global Change Research Program
Are you interested in learning about climate change and its current and future effects on the United States? The Fourth National Climate Ass…
The Ocean: A General Account Of The Science Of The Sea
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John Murray
Sir John Murray, considered to be the father of modern oceanography, discusses the variations in the depths of oceans, and the methods and i…
The Romance of Modern Geology
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Edwin Sharpe Grew
From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the bui…
The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants
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Charles Darwin
A technical report of the experiments and observations performed on various species of twining, tendril-climbing, root-climbing, and leaf-cl…
Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
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Charles F. Lummis
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…
The Romance of Mining
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Archibald Williams
Any writer on mining in its general aspect is, when casting about for a starting-point, driven to express what others have said before him-t…
U. S. Energy Sector Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather
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United States Department Of Energy
This report—part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to support national climate change adaptation planning through the Interagency Climat…
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 1
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Various
This is the first issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Ma…
Little Masterpieces of Science - The Skies and The Earth
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George Iles
The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces of Science edited by George Iles and published in 1902. It includes es…
Civilization and Climate
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Ellsworth Huntington
This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…
Submerged Forests
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Clement Reid
Submerged Forests, a volume in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, is a study of the land beneath the coastal areas and …