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The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root

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Alice A. Ball


The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum or The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of The Ava Root is the text of a Master’…

The Kingdom of the Heavens

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Charles Nordmann


Thought is the most swift and subtle of vehicles. Let us therefore use that craft to reach a trysting-place in the skies. The light which r…

Energy and Thermo-dynamics

In Science and Hypothesis

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Henri Poincaré


Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…

On the Vice of Novel Reading

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008

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Young E. Allison


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

Vol I Ch 1: The History of the South Pole, pt 2

In The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1…

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Roald Amundsen


In contrast to Scott's South Pole expedition, Amundsen's expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally…

Conflagrations in the Heavens

In Curiosities of the Sky

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Garrett Serviss and Garrett P. Serviss


Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been pen…

The Hare And The Tortoise

In Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

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Jean de la Fontaine, W. T. Larned (trans.) and Jean de la Fontaine


Several of La Fontaine's fables, translated into English by W. T. Larned. (Summary by bge1234)

Common Minerals and Valuable Ores. I. Iron Minerals

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 4, November 1899

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Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

Tesla Bulbs, June 1919

In My Inventions and Other Works

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Nikola Tesla


Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these wo…

Drawing

In The Practice and Science of Drawing

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Harold Speed


This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass…

Vision and Scent of Vultures

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 4, April 1899

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Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

Chapter 1: An end and a beginning

In The Story Of A Modern Woman

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Ella Hepworth Dixon


"This touching short novel tells the story of Mary Earl, a woman who has to fend for herself in London at the end of the 19th century. …

The Periodic Law

In History of Chemistry, Volume II. From 1850-1910

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Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe


A history of the advances in chemistry, in the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry from the mid-nineteenth century through t…

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