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 βΒ The debt of modern chemistry to Antoine Lavoisier (1743β1794) is incalculable. With Lavoisier’s discoveries of the compositions of air and water (he gave the ...
Continue Reading βPhilosophie zoologique (“Zoological Philosophy, or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals”) is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in ...
Continue Reading βWritten by RenΓ© Laennec (1781-1826), a French physician and inventor of the stethoscope, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest and on Mediate Auscultation ...
Continue Reading βThe Histoire Naturelle is the work that the Comte de Buffon (1707β1788) is remembered for. 36 volumes came out between 1749 and 1789, followed by ...
Continue Reading βIn Adam Smith’s first major work, he comprehensively explores morality and what it means to be a good person, through a sympathetic examination of ethics, ...
Continue Reading βThe Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines is a book that economist William ...
Continue Reading βWilliam Stanley Jevons is regarded by many as bringing mathematical methods to the study of economics. The Theory of Political Economy brought together maths and ...
Continue Reading βΒ Henry Hazlitt strongly recommended this book for all students of the social sciences. It had a formative influence on his life. In fact, it ...
Continue Reading βSerse (english: Xerxes) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The ...
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