Science
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…
The Outline of Science, Vol 2
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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…
The Life of the Spider
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Jean-Henri Fabre
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an auto…
Auguste Comte and Positivism
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John Stuart Mill
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002
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Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3
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Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…
The Fairyland of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
"I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science, -- a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look…
The Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Version 2)
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J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science, Volume 1 was written specifically with theman-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Coveringscientific subje…