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Click-on Links to Pages Containing Classic/Obscure Science Texts, Articles, Etc.
Download classic – obscure antiquarian science texts and articles - complete with original wood-cuts and copper-plate Figures;
read “cover to cover”, or use your Browser's search function to find and read specific sections.
For example: The flora and fauna unique to the
Galapagos Archipelago are considered by many to be critical to Darwin’s thinking and to the development of his theory of evolution – What did Darwin see, collect and write about his visit to the islands? and what, if anything, did he write in his journal about the unique population
of finches found among the various islands? –Download The Voyage of the Beagle and search
for “Galapagos” or “finches”; Thomas Henry Huxley, “Darwin’s Bulldog”, defended the theory of evolution, publicly, in ways that Darwin never could,
especially in connecting mankind to all the other animals – Why, then, did he lecture and write about the relatively simple organism yeast?;
John Tyndall and Huxley were contemporaries and good friends. Tyndall and Huxley collaborated on the question of whether the air was filled with
“germs” and Tyndall
demonstrated that Penicillium mold prevented the growth of bacteria, decades prior to Fleming. Tyndall
lectured in America on the subject of Light during the years 1872-1873. One of the many interesting points he covers in this series of lectures
is the question of whether it is possible to see the same rainbow directly and reflected in a pool of water, like a tree at the waters
edge - Is it possible? download lecture One and search for “rainbow”; In 1877, the “most distinguished astronomer in Europe”, Schiaparelli,
published the description of a network of lines that appeared on the planet Mars. Schiaparelli’s “canals” of Mars stood unchallenged for many
years and sparked a controversy, lead by Percival Lowell as late as 1910, stating that the presence of “canals” on Mars proves the existence
of inhabitants on that planet. What did the Superintendent of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Walter Maunder, think of all this? download
Are The Planets Inhabited (1913) and search for “Schiparelli”; Why did J.B. S. Haldane,
in his book Daedalus , think that the work of a scientist is to turn good into evil
(and Bertrand Russell wasn’t much more complimentary to the field in his book: Icarus or the Future of Science ?;
What did Archdeacon William Paley say about the exquisite adaptation of animals to their
environment -an exceptionally eloquent argument for Divine intervention which continues to be quoted, nearly two hundred years after the original
publication; Why did John Muir say that the Douglass squirrel is by far the most
interesting [of all] the other species, and that "I cannot begin to tell here how much he has cheered my lonely wanderings during all the years
I have been pursuing my studies in these glorious wilds … "; What did Henri Poincare, one of the world’s greatest theoretical mathematicians, say
in his address to the Academie des Sciences on December 19th, 1908, regarding the
Future of Mathematics?
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