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The Fourth Dimension
by Charles Howard HintonThe fourth dimension is a subject which has had a great fascination for many teachers, and though one cannot pretend to have quite grasped Mr. Hinton’s conceptions and arguments, yet it must be admitted that he reveals the elusive idea in quite a fascinating light. Quite apart from the main thesis of the book many chapters are of great independent ..
More Beetles
by Jean-Henri FabreChildhood is pitiless because it does not understand, for nothing is more cruel than ignorance. None of my madcaps will heed the sufferings of the insect, a melancholy galley-slave chained to a cannon-ball. These artless minds find amusement in torture. I dare not always call them to order, for I admit that I on my side am also guilty, though I am ..
The Strangest Things in the World
by Thomas R. HenryThe challenges of Nature’s paradoxes have been sharp spurs to man’s search for knowledge since the start of science. Fortunately the number of these paradoxes is infinite, and so the quests are endless. Man never will know a wonderless world. In the phenomena of life especially we have come only to the zone of morning twilight. The bright day of un..
The Book of Stars
by Archie Frederick CollinsThe stars are the friends of everyone who knows them. If you have never stood out in the open and watched the stars on a clear night, you have missed the most wonderful sight to be seen from this little old mud ball of ours, and my advice to you is not to let another night go by without making friends with the stars.By the stars I mean everything i..
Lessons in Sabre
by John Musgrave WaiteIn the pages of this Manual an attempt is made to give full and practical instruction in Sabre and Singlestick Play, and in the use of Sabre against Bayonet, and also to explain the course of practice that is necessary for those who wish to perform the difficult sword feats which require at once strength and lightness of hand. How far I have succee..
Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites
by Gustaf LindstromIt is well known amongst palæontologists that the hypostoma of the trilobites has been the particular object for research and description by a few authors, as Barrande, Novák and Brögger and some passing notes concerning it are given in the descriptive works of other authors. In the following pages reference is often made to them and I may here giv..
The Principles of Biology, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Herbert SpencerTurning from the additions to the revisions, I have to say that the aid needed for bringing up to date the contents of this volume, has been given me by the gentlemen who gave me like aid in revising the first volume: omitting Prof. Perkin, within whose province none of the contents of this volume fall. Plant-Morphology and Plant-Physiology have be..
Relics of Primeval Life
by Sir J. William DawsonThe author was associated with the original discovery and description of these supposed earliest traces of life; and has since, in the intervals of other work, devoted much time to further exploration and research, the results of which have been published from time to time in the form of scientific papers. He has also given attention to the later d..