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Science & Nature

Old science books are a window into how ideas grew: what was known, what was guessed and what turned out wrong. Here you will find natural history, mathematics, astronomy and more, often with the plates and diagrams of the time.

5 books, free to read online or download.

Smithsonian miscellaneous collections
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Smithsonian miscellaneous collections

Smithsonian Institution

Practical chemistry
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Practical chemistry

Lyman Churchill Newell

Problems and questions in physics
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Problems and questions in physics

Charles Philo Matthews

The chemical history of a candle, a course of lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution
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The chemical history of a candle, a course of lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution

Michael Faraday

The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject
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The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject

Robert Boyle