Science
- Explorations in Nature and Science
- Chronicles of Scientific Discovery
- Exploring Health Through Science
- Explorations in Science and Thought
The Book of Love
Translated from Italian, it delves into the physiology of love from a scientific standpoint, in beautiful writing.
The Food of the Gods
Chocolate! Is it really the "food of the gods?" What we do know, is that the products of the cocoa trees, in one form or another…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …
The American Egypt
Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…
Theory of Colours
Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and …
The Martyrs of Science
“The martyrs of Science” gives a brief biography of Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. These three men played a pivotal role in the scientific revol…
On Comparative Longevity in Man and the Lower Animals
A prize was recently offered in the University of Oxford for an Essay on Longevity, and was awarded to the little treatise now published. In…
Hereditary Genius
A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including colleg…
Information and Entropy
Instructors: Paul Penfield, Seth Lloyd
This course explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the p…
Science and the Criminal
Today we are bombarded with the idea that forensic science can be used to solve almost any crime. At the turn of the twentieth century, fore…
Relativity
This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and Genera…
Metaphysics
Metaphysics by Aristotle delves into the fundamental nature of reality, exploring concepts such as substance, causation, and the existence o…
MIT 2.71 Optics
Instructors: George Barbastathis, Colin Sheppard, Se Baek Oh
This course provides an introduction to optical science with elementary engine…
Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England…
The Wonder Book of Chemistry
A captivating introduction to the basic principles of chemistry. Uncle Paul teaches his two nephews using lively dialogue and ordinary house…
Influences of Geographic Environment
"Influences of Geographic Environment" by Ellen Churchill Semple is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. Th…
Botanical Features of North American Deserts
This book contains field research work of the desert laboratory near Tucson, Arizona, studying the botanical ecosystem surviving in the arid…
Apollo Space Missions Collection Onboard Recording of Lunar Landing
An onboard recording of a lunar landing, presented as part of an Apollo space missions collection. The recording offers a direct audio persp…
Apollo Space Missions Collection
A crew debriefing about EVA-1, an extravehicular activity associated with the Apollo space missions. The recording offers a firsthand, discu…
Apollo Space Missions Collection
A collection centered on the Apollo space missions, with material identified as an extended liftoff sequence spanning the countdown from T-6…