Daedalus: or, Science and the future

More Science from an Easy Chair

Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

The work is a 1920 re‑issue of Sir E. Ray Lankester’s popular science essays, originally printed in the Daily…

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays is a collection of Bertrand Russell’s shorter writings on mathematics,…

Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches

Jagadis Chandra Bose

The volume is a biographical and documentary collection that traces the life and scientific work of Sir…

Views of nature: or Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation with scientific illustrations

Alexander von Humboldt

This volume presents Alexander von Humboldt’s Views of Nature, a sweeping survey of the physical geography,…

Science and the modern world

Alfred North Whitehead

The work is a philosophical survey of how scientific ideas have reshaped Western culture over the past three…

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told

J. Arthur Thomson

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 is a broad‑ranging survey that sets out to give the “intelligent…