Earth Sciences
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Miscellanea Curiosa
"The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous ex…
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
This book is not a technical treatise and is designed only to point out the plain, every-day facts in the natural scheme of making and keepi…
San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake
As all but Martians know (and who knows, perhaps even they), the city of San Francisco, California, was destroyed by massive earthquake and …
Volcanoes and Vulcanology
This is a collection of short scientific articles on the study of volcanoes and related seismic activity published in Knowledge, A Monthly R…
A Text-book of Assaying
This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…
Micrographia
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…
Meteorology
Meteorology (Greek: Μετεωρολογικά; Latin: Meteorologica or Meteora) by Aristotle Translated by Erwin Wentworth Webster before he fell in act…
The Life of a Fossil Hunter
Charles Sternberg was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils…
The Ocean
Sir John Murray, considered to be the father of modern oceanography, discusses the variations in the depths of oceans, and the methods and i…
Fourth National Climate Assessment
Are you interested in learning about climate change and its current and future effects on the United States? The Fourth National Climate Ass…
The Romance of Modern Geology
From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the bui…
The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants
A technical report of the experiments and observations performed on various species of twining, tendril-climbing, root-climbing, and leaf-cl…
Titan Of Chasms
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…
The Romance of Mining
Any writer on mining in its general aspect is, when casting about for a starting-point, driven to express what others have said before him-t…
U. S. Energy Sector Vulnerabilities
This report—part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to support national climate change adaptation planning through the Interagency Climat…
Civilization and Climate
This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side
This is the first issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Ma…
Little Masterpieces of Science
The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces of Science edited by George Iles and published in 1902. It includes es…
Submerged Forests
Submerged Forests, a volume in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, is a study of the land beneath the coastal areas and …