Found 5,219 results for "Natural history illustration"
A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
A WELL-KNOWN SCIENTIST (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
by Friedrich Nietzsche
THE Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosopher...
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
by Sir Isaac Newton
If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
Orthodoxy
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...
Heidi
by Spyri, Johanna
The pretty little Swiss town of Mavenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range, whose grim rugged peaks tower high above...
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...