Science
The Autobiography of an Electron
Read by Laura Victoria
Charles R. Gibson
"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…
The Elements of Botany
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Botany is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a s…
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
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Gaston Maspero
A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Ce…
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…
Farthest North, Volume I
Read by Sharon Riskedahl
Fridtjof Nansen
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram", 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and …
The Outline of Science, Vol 3
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J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…
Rocks and Their Origins
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Grenville A. J. Cole
Do you know the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical compos…
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Thomas Malthus
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, incr…
Short Science Fiction Collection 037
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Various
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Golden mean to 5000 digits
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Jerry Bonnell, Jerry Bonnellandrobert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell And Robert Nemiroff
The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length a+b is to the longer segment a as a …
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Hallam Hawksworth
This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to …
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…
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Hans Gross
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …
Ways of Wood Folk
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William J. Long
Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal …
The Monadology
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text w…
Fathers of Biology
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Charles Mcrae
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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Charles Darwin
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, concerning genetically determined aspects …
Kepler
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Walter W. Bryant
This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at…
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" …
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …
Curiosities of the Sky
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Garrett P. Serviss
Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been pen…