Best History Books
Best Free History Books of 2024
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Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Book Reviews
Thomas Henry HuxleyWhich describes some of the things which were said by Charles Darwin. Author became known as 'Darwin's bulldog' because of his forceful and energetic support for Dar...
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Basic and Applied Research Book Reviews
David Kaldewey & Désirée SchauzThe distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentiethcentury science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheles...
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The Problem of the Ohio Mounds Book Reviews
Cyrus ThomasThe opinion advanced in this paper, in support of which evidence will be presented, is that the ancient works of the State are due to Indians of several different tribes, and that ...
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Shiva Science Book Reviews
David Christopher Lane & Andrea Diem-LaneIt is one of the curious oddities of our time that we talk so much about the scientific method as if it is one singular entity when, in point of practice, it is anything but. The u...
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Shaping Natural History and Settler Society Book Reviews
Tanja Hammel“Hammel successfully illuminates how the production and circulation of Barber’s work was deeply affected by contemporary attitudes towards gender and race within the colonial conte...
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Heroes of Science Book Reviews
M. M. Pattison MuirM. M. Pattison Muir traces the development of chemistry in his 1883 history, focusing on “the figures of one or two men who were prominent” at each stage of development.
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A History of Science Book Reviews
Henry Smith Williams & Edward H. WilliamsThis 1904 publication, book three of Williams and Williams’ A History of Science, picks up with accomplishments of Isaac Newton’s successors in astronomy and chronicles the histori...
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The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century Book Reviews
Thomas Henry HuxleyThe most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the applicatio...
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Woman in Science Book Reviews
John Augustine ZahmA history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made. A proper understanding of this subject seems to require some preliminary survey ...
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AWARE 27 Book Reviews
Tony 'Thoth' YusteinFor such a long time the human race on Earth has been toyed with. The truth is hidden from the public. The human race is being used as slaves in a loop which you can’t break becaus...
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Reconnecting to Reality Book Reviews
Jerry PitneyA science layperson's guide to examining the nature of reality by performing a series of easy and simple tests and experiments. This book also focuses on how ancient man first...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Book Reviews
Henry OldenburgThis is the first volume of the science journal of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, published in 1666 and edited by German natural philosopher Henry Old...
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The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments Book Reviews
Robert P. MulthaufThis is a science history book. The development of selfregistering meteorological instruments began very shortly after that of scientific meteorological observation itself. Yet it ...
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Scientific American, Volume 56, No. 9, February 26, 1887 Book Reviews
UnknownThis American popular science magazine began publication in New York in 1845. The February 26, 1887, issue includes articles about the Northern Lights, the cocaine habit, petroleum...
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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy Book Reviews
Sally FramptonThis open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons...
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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry Book Reviews
M. M. Pattison MuirA light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atom...
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Numerical Experiments in Science Book Reviews
Jean-René Chazottes & Marc MonticelliInteractive Numerical Experiments Inside Summary : The purpose of this booklet is to show how numerical experiments, which became interactive over time, have allowed dis...
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Artificial Light Book Reviews
Matthew LuckieshThe human race was born in slavery, totally subservient to nature. The earliest primitive beings feasted or starved according to nature's bounty and sweltered or shivered acco...
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A History of Science Book Reviews
Henry Smith WilliamsA real early History of Science. The book has very thorough and deep into the start of science and Society and a good guide to where science has been.
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The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors Book Reviews
W. James KingThe year 1600 saw the publication by an English physician, William Gilbert, of a book on the loadstone. Entitled De magnete, it has traditionally been credited with laying a founda...
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Data Journeys in the Sciences Book Reviews
Sabina Leonelli & Niccolò TempiniThis groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leadi...
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Die Romantik der Chemie Book Reviews
Oskar NagelWenn irgendeine Wissenschaft uns zu souveränen Herren der Natur gemacht und uns aus Naturbeherrschten in Beherrscher der Natur umgewandelt hat, so ist dies das spätgeborene Kulturk...
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Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine Book Reviews
Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy & Rachel Mason DentingerThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their...
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The Bigfoot Chronicles Book Reviews
Mike PalecekThe field notes of Mike Palecek from years of walking in the woods of Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota in search of Bigfoot.
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History of the Division of Medical Sciences Book Reviews
Sami Khalaf HamarnehIn these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museumsThe Museum of Natural History and the Museum ...
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Impressions from a Botanical Collection Book Reviews
Thomas W BaumannBeatrice Häsler’s artwork on the Botanical Collection of UZH: After a short description of the collection’s origin, a selection of the ‘impressions’ is presented. In the booklet’s ...
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Making Ammonia Book Reviews
Benjamin JohnsonThis Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve t...
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Arago et sa vie scientifique Book Reviews
Joseph BertrandJoseph Bertrand signe une biographie de François Arago, mathématicien, physicien et astronome du 19ème siècle, dans un ouvrage publié en 1865. L’auteur décrit les démarches et déco...
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Astronomy for Young Folks Book Reviews
Isabel Martin LewisIn this book published in 1917, written by Walter Libby, M.A., Ph.D., the author discusses the importance of teaching the history of science to teach scientific facts and principle...
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Discovering Archaeology with Fergus the Worm Book Reviews
Nicole CahlanderA fun and interactive introduction to archaeology for kids aged 57!
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The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology Book Reviews
L. N. FowlerTo teach learners those organic conditions which indicate character, is the first object of this manual; and in order to render it accessible to all, it condenses facts and conditi...
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A History of Science Book Reviews
Edward Huntington WilliamsThinker of a more recent period had penetrated, even in the vaguest way, all of the mysteries that the nineteenth century has revealed in the fields of chemistry and biology. At th...
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A Journey Called Science Book Reviews
Nachiket ShahA Journey Called Science illustrates a brief recount of the incredible and revolutionary joinery that science has taken in answering some of the ultimate questions of life. These u...
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100 Jahre NGD Book Reviews
Birgit OttmerFestschrift zum 100JahrJubiläum der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Davos NGD
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Apollo 11 In 22 Post Book Reviews
Claudio ElidoroCinquant’anni, mezzo secolo, cinque decadi, dieci lustri... Ditelo come volete, ma è davvero trascorso tanto tempo da quella magica mattina del 21 luglio 1969 in cui, per la prima ...
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The Coming of Evolution Book Reviews
John Wesley JuddThe Coming of Evolution is a Book of Science. The book describes that When the history of the Nineteenth Century'the Wonderful Century', as it has, not inaptly, been call...
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On the Origin of Species Book Reviews
Charles DarwinCan we doubt that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Speci...
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Life and Habit Book Reviews
Samuel ButlerAn enlightening and eye opening treatment of not only evolution but also a prescient account of the debate regarding quantum physics and consciousness 40 years before his time. An...
Best Paid History Books of 2024
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Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Book Reviews
Thomas Henry HuxleyWhich describes some of the things which were said by Charles Darwin. Author became known as 'Darwin's bulldog' because of his forceful and energetic support for Dar...
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Basic and Applied Research Book Reviews
David Kaldewey & Désirée SchauzThe distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentiethcentury science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheles...
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The Problem of the Ohio Mounds Book Reviews
Cyrus ThomasThe opinion advanced in this paper, in support of which evidence will be presented, is that the ancient works of the State are due to Indians of several different tribes, and that ...
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Shiva Science Book Reviews
David Christopher Lane & Andrea Diem-LaneIt is one of the curious oddities of our time that we talk so much about the scientific method as if it is one singular entity when, in point of practice, it is anything but. The u...
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Shaping Natural History and Settler Society Book Reviews
Tanja Hammel“Hammel successfully illuminates how the production and circulation of Barber’s work was deeply affected by contemporary attitudes towards gender and race within the colonial conte...
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Heroes of Science Book Reviews
M. M. Pattison MuirM. M. Pattison Muir traces the development of chemistry in his 1883 history, focusing on “the figures of one or two men who were prominent” at each stage of development.
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A History of Science Book Reviews
Henry Smith Williams & Edward H. WilliamsThis 1904 publication, book three of Williams and Williams’ A History of Science, picks up with accomplishments of Isaac Newton’s successors in astronomy and chronicles the histori...
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The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century Book Reviews
Thomas Henry HuxleyThe most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the applicatio...
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Woman in Science Book Reviews
John Augustine ZahmA history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made. A proper understanding of this subject seems to require some preliminary survey ...
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AWARE 27 Book Reviews
Tony 'Thoth' YusteinFor such a long time the human race on Earth has been toyed with. The truth is hidden from the public. The human race is being used as slaves in a loop which you can’t break becaus...
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Reconnecting to Reality Book Reviews
Jerry PitneyA science layperson's guide to examining the nature of reality by performing a series of easy and simple tests and experiments. This book also focuses on how ancient man first...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Book Reviews
Henry OldenburgThis is the first volume of the science journal of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, published in 1666 and edited by German natural philosopher Henry Old...
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The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments Book Reviews
Robert P. MulthaufThis is a science history book. The development of selfregistering meteorological instruments began very shortly after that of scientific meteorological observation itself. Yet it ...
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Scientific American, Volume 56, No. 9, February 26, 1887 Book Reviews
UnknownThis American popular science magazine began publication in New York in 1845. The February 26, 1887, issue includes articles about the Northern Lights, the cocaine habit, petroleum...
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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy Book Reviews
Sally FramptonThis open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons...
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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry Book Reviews
M. M. Pattison MuirA light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atom...
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Numerical Experiments in Science Book Reviews
Jean-René Chazottes & Marc MonticelliInteractive Numerical Experiments Inside Summary : The purpose of this booklet is to show how numerical experiments, which became interactive over time, have allowed dis...
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Artificial Light Book Reviews
Matthew LuckieshThe human race was born in slavery, totally subservient to nature. The earliest primitive beings feasted or starved according to nature's bounty and sweltered or shivered acco...
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A History of Science Book Reviews
Henry Smith WilliamsA real early History of Science. The book has very thorough and deep into the start of science and Society and a good guide to where science has been.
-
The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors Book Reviews
W. James KingThe year 1600 saw the publication by an English physician, William Gilbert, of a book on the loadstone. Entitled De magnete, it has traditionally been credited with laying a founda...
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Data Journeys in the Sciences Book Reviews
Sabina Leonelli & Niccolò TempiniThis groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leadi...
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Die Romantik der Chemie Book Reviews
Oskar NagelWenn irgendeine Wissenschaft uns zu souveränen Herren der Natur gemacht und uns aus Naturbeherrschten in Beherrscher der Natur umgewandelt hat, so ist dies das spätgeborene Kulturk...
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Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine Book Reviews
Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy & Rachel Mason DentingerThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their...
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The Bigfoot Chronicles Book Reviews
Mike PalecekThe field notes of Mike Palecek from years of walking in the woods of Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota in search of Bigfoot.
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History of the Division of Medical Sciences Book Reviews
Sami Khalaf HamarnehIn these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museumsThe Museum of Natural History and the Museum ...
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Impressions from a Botanical Collection Book Reviews
Thomas W BaumannBeatrice Häsler’s artwork on the Botanical Collection of UZH: After a short description of the collection’s origin, a selection of the ‘impressions’ is presented. In the booklet’s ...
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Making Ammonia Book Reviews
Benjamin JohnsonThis Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve t...
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Arago et sa vie scientifique Book Reviews
Joseph BertrandJoseph Bertrand signe une biographie de François Arago, mathématicien, physicien et astronome du 19ème siècle, dans un ouvrage publié en 1865. L’auteur décrit les démarches et déco...
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Astronomy for Young Folks Book Reviews
Isabel Martin LewisIn this book published in 1917, written by Walter Libby, M.A., Ph.D., the author discusses the importance of teaching the history of science to teach scientific facts and principle...
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Discovering Archaeology with Fergus the Worm Book Reviews
Nicole CahlanderA fun and interactive introduction to archaeology for kids aged 57!
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The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology Book Reviews
L. N. FowlerTo teach learners those organic conditions which indicate character, is the first object of this manual; and in order to render it accessible to all, it condenses facts and conditi...
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A History of Science Book Reviews
Edward Huntington WilliamsThinker of a more recent period had penetrated, even in the vaguest way, all of the mysteries that the nineteenth century has revealed in the fields of chemistry and biology. At th...
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A Journey Called Science Book Reviews
Nachiket ShahA Journey Called Science illustrates a brief recount of the incredible and revolutionary joinery that science has taken in answering some of the ultimate questions of life. These u...
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100 Jahre NGD Book Reviews
Birgit OttmerFestschrift zum 100JahrJubiläum der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Davos NGD
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Apollo 11 In 22 Post Book Reviews
Claudio ElidoroCinquant’anni, mezzo secolo, cinque decadi, dieci lustri... Ditelo come volete, ma è davvero trascorso tanto tempo da quella magica mattina del 21 luglio 1969 in cui, per la prima ...
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The Coming of Evolution Book Reviews
John Wesley JuddThe Coming of Evolution is a Book of Science. The book describes that When the history of the Nineteenth Century'the Wonderful Century', as it has, not inaptly, been call...
-
On the Origin of Species Book Reviews
Charles DarwinCan we doubt that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Speci...
-
Life and Habit Book Reviews
Samuel ButlerAn enlightening and eye opening treatment of not only evolution but also a prescient account of the debate regarding quantum physics and consciousness 40 years before his time. An...
