Science books

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

J. Arthur Thomson

The reason why: a careful collection of many hundreds of reasons for things which, though generally believed, are imperfectly understood. A book of condensed scientific knowledge for the million

Robert Kemp Philp

Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. V. 1-2

John Tyndall

Autobiography and Selected Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley

General Science

Bertha May Clark

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 1 of 2) with scientific elucidations

Alexander von Humboldt

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley

Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Thomas Henry Huxley

The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

Robert Hunt

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 2 of 2) with scientific elucidations

Alexander von Humboldt

Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions

Herbert Spencer

The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays

Thorstein Veblen

Common Science

Carleton Washburne

Thoughts on Art and Life

da Vinci Leonardo

On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville

The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse

Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young

John Timbs

Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.

Herbert Spencer

Lectures and Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley