Science (Academic) Books

Containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, subs, torpedoes, airships and much more.

The discovery of the circulation of the blood.

"Each one of us feels in his own experience an insistent urge to speciahze in order that he may do, not a variety of things, but a few things better and more quickly. He must swim with the stream or he will not survive. It is true in business as in science. In one way this concentration...

Pt.1. Biology in classical antiquity, the middle ages and the renaissance : history of biology during the renaissance -- pt.2. Biology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- pt.3. From Darwin to our own day.

"For the ordinary student and teacher on this continent freshwater life has a significance heretofore greatly underestimated. In most parts of the country it lies at one's very door, readily accessible, and is indeed the only type of aquatic existence which can be studied Uving and at work. This...

McRae, Charles. Formerly Scholar of Exeter College, Oxford. Hippocrates.-- Aristotle.-- Galen.-- Vesalius.-- Harvey

George Howard Parker (December 23, 1864 – March 26, 1955) was an American zoologist. He was a professor at Harvard, and investigated the anatomy and physiology of sense organs and animal reactions.

Sir John Arthur Thomson (8 July 1861 – 12 February 1933) was a Scottish naturalist who authored several notable books and was an expert on soft corals.

Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert), 1865-1939, Keeper of The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester Formerly Professor of Zoology in The Royal College of Science, Dublin.

Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 The John's Hopkins University. The biology of death; being a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston in December 1920.