Science Books

Hudson considers birds as living neighbors, combining field observation with reflections on collectors, captivity, beauty, and human habits.

Birdsong, woodland walks, nesting habits, and seasonal change shape John Burroughs’s first collection of American nature essays.

Inventors, workshops, factories, railways, communication networks, and aviation shape this account of mechanical invention and American industrial development.

Xu Guangqis ausgewählte landwirtschaftliche Texte behandeln Boden, Feldarbeit, Urbarmachung, Pflanzenbau, Obst, Nutzgehölze und Tierhaltung im China der Ming-Zeit.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal reflexiona sobre vocación, perseverancia, formación, colaboración y obstáculos intelectuales en el trabajo de investigación científica.

Samuel Butler compares earlier evolutionary thinkers with Darwin, tracing disputes about purpose, inheritance, adaptation, and natural selection.

John Burroughs observes flowers, birds, woodland animals, and American landscapes through patient fieldwork and reflective natural-history essays.

John Muir explores Sierra Nevada glaciers, forests, mountain storms, wildlife, and the changing natural landscapes of California.

Joseph McCabe traces cosmic, geological, biological, and human development in an early twentieth-century account of evolutionary science.

John Burroughs observes falling leaves, birds, animals, and changing landscapes while reflecting on science and the pleasures of attentive looking.

John Burroughs observes nesting birds, honeybees, fruit, woodland neighbors, and the patient attention that makes nature newly visible.

Xu Guangqi’s agricultural selections connect classical learning with practical advice on cultivation, fruit trees, land management, and animal husbandry.

Maurice Maeterlinck décrit la société des termites et confronte ses mécanismes collectifs aux questions de l'instinct, de l'intelligence et du destin.

Poincaré étudie l'invention, le hasard et l'enseignement pour comprendre comment les savants choisissent leurs faits et construisent leurs raisonnements.

Henri Poincaré examine les fondements des mathématiques, les transformations de la physique et la portée objective de la connaissance scientifique.

Shen Kuo réunit observations scientifiques, souvenirs historiques, musique, techniques, arts et curiosités dans un ensemble de notes des Song.

Un philosophe et une marquise discutent des planètes, des étoiles et des mondes possibles au fil de conversations nocturnes.

Micrographia explores microscopy, insects, plants, materials, and scientific observation.

Una enciclopedia agrícola sobre cultivos, agua, herramientas, ganadería y tecnología rural.

deep time, gradual geological change, natural processes, and modern earth science.

The opening volumes of Li Shizhen’s materia medica introduce classical Chinese medicine, herbs, pharmacy, and natural history.

mathematical imagination, dimensions, geometry, social hierarchy, and satire.

Einstein’s concise lecture-based explanation of special and general relativity.

Un essai majeur d’Ernest Renan sur la science, la connaissance, la religion et le progrès intellectuel.