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10 Lighthouse Illumination, the Electric Light

In 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…

16 Ch.6, Pt.1 On academic freedom in German universities

In Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

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Hermann Von Helmholtz

This presents a summary of many of Hemholtz's areas of research. He investigated the workings of the brain in its appreciation of art and mu…

XXVIII The Stars - Catalogues - Proper Motion - Parallax - Magnitude

In 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…

Cynthia

In Limbo

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Aldous Huxley

This is Aldous Huxley's first collection of short stories, which consists of 6 stories and a play.Characters in the play, "Happy Famili…

Scaly Mushroom to Curled Helvella

In Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)

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Worthington George Smith

This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

Chapter I. A Remarkable Acquaintance

In Unveiling a Parallel

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Alice Ilgenfritz Jones

In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and El…

Chapter 7 The division of consciousness proceeds from the confusion of the anim…

In On Life

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Leo Tolstoy

What is the "good life" for us mortal beings? Two months spent recovering from a severe injury allowed Tolstoy to develop and orga…