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Walter W. Bryant - Kepler

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 his early years. Two chapters deal with his working relationship with Tycho...

Bill Boerst 1 hour 47 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - On Generation and Corruption

On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is...

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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John Cargill Brough - Fairy Tales of Science

This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science for children. In each chapter, the author uses a popular myth or fairy tale...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - On the Heavens

On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argues that the Earth is a sphere by pointing to the evidence of lunar eclipses....

Geoffrey Edwards 5 hours

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Sir Isaac Newton - Opticks

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 — 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form...

Availle and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

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Gaston Maspero - Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Century. (Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 6 hours 50 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Charles R. Gibson - Autobiography of an Electron

«While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very important part which we play in the workaday world. It was for this reason that my...

Laura Victoria 2 hours 31 minutes

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Cornelius Beringer - Text-book of Assaying

This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: «At first our intention was to supply a description of those substances only which have a...

Peter Yearsley 23 hours 30 minutes

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John Phin - Seven Follies of Science

The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions,...

tmkenny and 12 more 6 hours 34 minutes

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William Ruschenberger - Elements of Entomology

The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a succinct little textbook from 1845 that presents an introduction to...

Mich_elle and 4 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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Sigmund Freud - Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and...

Mary Schneider 7 hours 15 minutes

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James Orton - Andes and The Amazon

This book, with the subtitle «Across the Continent of South America» describes the scientific expedion of 1867 to the equatorial Andes and the Amazon. The route was from Guayaquil to Quito, over the Cordillera,...

Michael Packard and 9 more 9 hours 49 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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