Science

Opticks

Isaac Newton

Opticks differs in many respects from the Principia. It was first published in English rather than in the Latin used by European philosophers, contributing to the development of a vernacular science literature. The book is a model of popular science...

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton

Part of the contents originally planned for the first book was divided out into a second book, which largely concerns motion through resisting mediums. Just as Newton examined consequences of different conceivable laws of attraction in Book 1, here h...

Evolution and Adaptation

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Morgan was interested in evolution throughout his life. He wrote his thesis on the phylogeny of sea spiders (pycnogonids) and wrote four books about evolution. In Evolution and Adaptation (1903), he argued the anti-Darwinist position that selection c...

The Birds and the Bees

David Fisher

Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs. Likewise, birds are considered reptiles in the modern cladistic sense of the term, and their closest living relatives are the crocodilians. Birds are descendants o...

Icarius

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell was a British polymath. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive scie...

The Wright Brothers

Anonymous

The Wright brothers were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air airc...

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

Nikola Tesla

“Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering,—in the hope that some one, no matter who, may find a solution of one of the pending great problems,—and each succeeding day we return to our task with renewed ardor; and even i...

The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla

Thomas Commerford Martin

Written in 1893, the book is a record of Tesla's pioneering activities, research, and works.Tesla is recognized as one of the foremost electrical researchers and inventors.At the time of publication, the book was the "bible" of every electrical engin...

The Elements of Style

William Strunk

The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principle...

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin

Darwin's hypothesis of common choice issued a significant challenge to conventional thought and conviction: no being or species has been particularly made; all are bolted into a merciless battle for presence, with termination approaching for those no...