This globe of the earth is a habitable world; and on its fitness for this purpose, our sense of wisdom in its formation must depend. ...
Continue Reading βΒ In 1876, Louis Pasteur published his ground-breaking volume, Etudes sur la Biere, soon translated into English as Studies On Fermentation. The book changed the ...
Continue Reading βPhilosophia 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 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 βThe research on the nature of alkalinity, which Black conducted for his thesis, laid the basis for the most important paper of his career, βExperiments ...
Continue Reading βPreliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface ...
Continue Reading βCosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe is an influential treatise on science and nature written by the German scientist and explorer ...
Continue Reading βThe legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769β1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799β1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist AimΓ© ...
Continue Reading βFriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 β 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy ...
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