This globe of the earth is a habitable world; and on its fitness for this purpose, our sense of wisdom in its formation must depend. ...
Continue Reading →In 1876, Louis Pasteur published his ground-breaking volume, Etudes sur la Biere, soon translated into English as Studies On Fermentation. The book changed the ...
Continue Reading →Philosophia Botanica (The Science of Botany), by Carl Linnaeus, was originally published in Latin in Stockholm and Amsterdam in 1751. It is a greatly expanded ...
Continue Reading →The debt of modern chemistry to Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) is incalculable. With Lavoisier’s discoveries of the compositions of air and water (he gave the ...
Continue Reading →The Histoire Naturelle is the work that the Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) is remembered for. 36 volumes came out between 1749 and 1789, followed by ...
Continue Reading →The research on the nature of alkalinity, which Black conducted for his thesis, laid the basis for the most important paper of his career, “Experiments ...
Continue Reading →Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface ...
Continue Reading →Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe is an influential treatise on science and nature written by the German scientist and explorer ...
Continue Reading →The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé ...
Continue Reading →Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy ...
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