The kaleidoscope: its history, theory and construction. With its application to the fine and useful arts

History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time

William Whewell

William Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences is a scholarly survey that traces the development of…

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

Augustus De Morgan

The volume is a miscellany of seventeenth‑century mathematical and scientific curiosities, assembled by…

Astronomy for Amateurs

Camille Flammarion

Camille Flammarion’s Astronomy for Amateurs is a concise, twelve‑chapter guide that opens with a lyrical…

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

da Vinci Leonardo

The volume is a facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci’s own handwritten treatises on optics, collected under the…

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard A. Proctor

Richard A. Proctor’s Myths and Marvels of Astronomy is a Victorian‑era popular‑science collection that…

The Story of the Heavens

Robert S. Ball

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific treatise that opens with a detailed illustration of a total solar…