Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

The Apple The Kansas Apple, the Big Red Apple; the Luscious, Red-Cheeked First Love of the Farmer's Boy; the Healthful, Hearty Heart of the Darling Dumpling. What It Is; How to Grow It; Its Commercial and Economic Importance; How to Utilize It.

The Apple is a comprehensive agricultural handbook that treats the apple tree as both a scientific curiosity…

Frying Pan Farm

Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Frying Pan Farm is a scholarly monograph that documents the agricultural life of Fairfax County, Virginia, in…

Leisure hours among the gems

Augustus C. Hamlin

Leisure Hours Among the Gems is a scholarly survey of precious stones, written by Augustus C.

The filtration of public water-supplies Third edition, revised and enlarged.

Allen Hazen

Allen Hazen’s third edition presents a comprehensive technical treatise on the engineering and public‑health…

Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia From Authentic Sources

Karl von Gebler

The work is a scholarly study that brings together authentic documentary material on Galileo’s trial before…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1

Humboldt, Alexander von; Bonpland, Aimé

This work is a scientific travelogue that chronicles Alexander von Humboldt’s and Aimé Bonpland’s expedition…

Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage’s Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes is a polemical…

The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 50 (First Series) General Index to Forty-Nine Volumes

Various

The work before you is a comprehensive index to the first fifty volumes of the American Journal of Science…

Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 1 (of 4)

James Hutton

James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth is an early‑19th‑century treatise that sets out a grand, systematic vision…

Volcanoes: What They are and What They Teach

John W. Judd

The work is a scholarly survey of volcanic phenomena, presented as a popular exposition of the state of…

The Story of a Boulder; or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist

Archibald Geikie

The work is a field‑geologist’s memoir that doubles as a practical guide to the Carboniferous rocks of…

Mars and Its Canals

Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell’s Mars and Its Canals is a scientific survey of the Red Planet written in 1906, presented as…

The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants.

Louis Figuier

The Ocean World is a nineteenth‑century natural history survey that sets out to describe the sea and its…

The pears of New York

U. P. Hedrick

The Pears of New York is a scholarly horticultural monograph that continues the New York Agricultural…

The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction

John L. Ridgway

This work is a practical guide issued by the United States Geological Survey to assist authors and draftsmen…

Histoire des légumes

Georges Gibault

Ce volume, signé par Georges Gibault, se présente comme une étude exhaustive de l’histoire des légumes…

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and Other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject

Joseph Harris

The book is a practical agricultural manual that presents a series of informal conversations between the…

Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature

J. H. Walden

Soil Culture is a practical handbook that seeks to gather the scattered knowledge of the past fifty years on…

天工開物

Yingxing Song

Round the year with the stars The chief beauties of the starry heavens as seen with the naked eye

Garrett Putman Serviss

Garrett Putnam Serviss’s Round the Year with the Stars is a practical guide for beginners who want to learn…

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

Hugh Miller

The work is a sweeping synthesis of nineteenth‑century geology and Christian theology, presented as a series…

The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872

Luigi Palmieri

The work is a scientific memoir by Luigi Palmieri, a seasoned physicist whose name appears in the Royal…

A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber: With Remarks on the Means of Preserving Wood From Destruction by Sea Worms, Beetles, Ants, Etc.

Thomas Allen Britton

The work is a scientific treatise on timber, beginning with a detailed examination of the elementary tissues…

A Text-Book of Astronomy

George C. Comstock

The work is presented as a practical textbook rather than a general survey of astronomy.