Physics & Mechanics
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy
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Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The first volume is on Astronomy written by Waldemar Kaempffert. This book brie…
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers and United States Army Corps Of Engineers
This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of militar…
Radioactive Substances
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
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Hendrik A. Lorentz
When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more evide…
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 3: Physics & Electricity
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Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity wri…
Golden mean to 5000 digits
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Jerry Bonnell and Jerry Bonnellandrobert 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 …
History of Astronomy
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George Forbes
An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by re…
Practical Talks by an Astronomer
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Harold Jacoby
The present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for se…
Masters of Space
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Walter Kellogg Towers
This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, a…
The New Physics and Its Evolution
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Lucien Poincaré
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 thou…
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
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William Carpenter
A bit of pseudo-science that will baffle, confuse, and amaze! Until the Space Age, there was little every-day, self-evident proof that the e…
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
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Agnes Mary Clerke
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century was thought to be Agnes Mary Clerke's greatest work. It covers developments mad…
The Story of Eclipses
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George F. Chambers
Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing …
A History of Astronomy
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Walter W. Bryant
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occu…
The Mysterious Universe
James Jeans
One of the earliest of the popular science book genre, it is a philosophical summary of the new physics of the era by a leading British phys…
Treatise on Light
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Christiaan Huygens
Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book e…
The Martyrs of Science, or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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David Brewster
“The martyrs of Science” gives a brief biography of Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. These three men played a pivotal role in the scientific revol…
Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi
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Galileo Galilei
Testo fondamentale nell'evoluzione del nostro pensiero scientifico e filosofico. Concepita nel 1610, l’opera ebbe un tempo di composizione m…
On the Various Forces of Nature
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Michael Faraday
A non-mathematical survey of the fundamental forces of nature and some relationships among them. This is a series of lectures aimed at young…
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
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Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and …