Life Sciences
9 books
Memoirs
513
Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville - Travels to Oaxaca
Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts to the French Caribbean. The year is 1776. Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville...
10 hours 30 minutes
Early Modern
482
Agnes Arber - Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals — books widely used in early modern Europe to catalogue the uses of different kinds of plants. While Herbals often reflected...
5 hours 25 minutes
Medical
546
William Ruschenberger - Elements of Anatomy and Physiology
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1852 presents an introduction to the...
4 hours 7 minutes
Animals
549
Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany written by Marion E. Latham. The section on Zoology examines the development,...
11 hours 11 minutes
*Non-fiction
468
William Diller Matthew - Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild enthusiasm of Jurassic Park and its sequels. The term «dinosaur» was coined in 1841 by the Victorian scientist Sir Richard Owen. By the end of...
4 hours 22 minutes
Animals
479
Charles Holder - Half Hours With the Lower Animals
This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word «animal» with fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 90% of the animal species on earth are invertebrates, i.e.,...
5 hours 8 minutes
