Einstein wrote this book for people who are interested in understanding the Theory of Relativity but aren't experts in scientific and mathematical pri...
The Fur Country or Seventy Degrees North Latitude is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. T...
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented writer, his...
"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...
This is a short booklet on science fact commissioned by the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration (Office of Public Affairs). It tells...
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 experiments herewith reported were undertaken with the view of introducing certain improvements into the oil-drop method of determining e and N an...
Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; and GEOMETRY...
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...
When Scott made his expedition the study of Radiology was new breaking open physics. Meteorology was much less well known and understood. Continental...
“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...
The book sets forth the principles of nature the Laws of Physics as Descartes viewed them. Most notably, it set forth the principle that in the absenc...
The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher S...
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...
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...
The book is organized chronologically, beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and growth of the early Christian Church. From there, Dr. Walsh det...
This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been carefully revised...
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 main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories...
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...
