Einstein wrote this book for people who are interested in understanding the Theory of Relativity but aren't experts in scientific and mathematical pri...
Is there intelligent life on Mars? Why are there starless gaps in the Milky Way? What creates the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights? These and mo...
"The object of the present work is the publication of researches which I have been carrying on for more than four years on radio-active bodies. I bega...
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From...
The present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for serious stud...
An unidentified flying object (UFO) is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified or explained. Most UFOs are identified or...
“The martyrs of Science” gives a brief biography of Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. These three men played a pivotal role in the scientific revolution duri...
"You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were st...
The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century marked a new era in the study of physics. It seemed as though everything that was thought to be...
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiy...
This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first...
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...
Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy it is one of his minor works. T...
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century was thought to be Agnes Mary Clerke's greatest work. It covers developments made in the f...
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occupation of...
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books,...
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiy...
Urania is a work of science fiction from the fine mind of French astronomer Camille Flammarion. Named for Urania, the muse of astronomy, this book in...
The Natural History is a work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day, the Natural Histor...
A non-mathematical survey of the fundamental forces of nature and some relationships among them. This is a series of lectures aimed at young people. H...
This is the first of two related Faraday projects. It is about Faraday and deals more with biographical references to Faraday, outlining the important...
This booklet is part of the "Understanding the Atom Series" published by the Division of Technical Information of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. F...
Topics covered include an overview of the ocean, the role of nuclear energy, research project, oceanic instruments, nuclear powered vessels, desalinat...
It is a overview of the applications of radioisotopes in medicine, from diagnostic imaging to cancer therapy.
Originally published in 1966, "Radioiso...
