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• FROM THE BLOG:
  • 2015 Oct. 12: In Memoriam Jim Harter (1941-2015): Retrofuturistic artist and a major influence on this website.
  • 2015 July 06: Carpenter--Tolstoy--Poincaré (Introduction): A Late 19th Century debate on the value of science (in five parts)
  • 2015 Feb. 16: Some Small Part in This Renaissance: Robert Robinson Taylor, MIT's First Black Graduate
  • 2014 Dec. 15: The One of Time, of Space the Three: The Collected Poems of Sir William Rowan Hamilton
  • 2014 Jan. 27: Living Online in the Nineteenth Century: Drawings from The Operator [1877].
  • 2013 Oct. 07: Enquiry-Based Learning, 1920s Style: C. G. MacArthur's Scientific Teaching of Science.
  • 2013 Aug. 26: The Air-Midshipman's Primer Song
  • 2013 June 03: Henri Poincaré's The Relativity of Space: An Illustrated, Annotated Edition In six parts.
  • 2013 Apr. 08: A New Approach to Experimental History of Science In seven parts, plus an epilogue, released over two months.
  • 2013 Mar. 11: Hermann Minkowski's Space and Time: An Illustrated, Annotated Edition In twelve parts.
  • 2013 Feb. 04: Scenes from the Life of Miss Sydney Margaret Hamilton
  • 2013 Jan. 28: Dimitry Mendeléeff and the Elements Lighter Than Hydrogen
  • 2012 Dec. 03: Greetings from 1827!

• BY LONG-NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITERS:

  • Astronomy:
    • Exposition du système du monde (1796) by Pierre Simon Laplace [Brussels: De Vroom, 1827]
      • English translation: The System of the World: Volume I --- Volume II [Dublin: Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, 1830]
    • Mechanism of the Heavens by Mary Somerville [London: Jn. Murray, 1831]
    • Star-Names and Their Meanings by Richard Hinckley Allen [New York: Stechert, 1899] Better known by the title of the 1963 Dover reprint Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning. The edition linked here is Bill Thayer's beautiful hypertext version.
    • Pleasures of the Telescope by Garrett P. Serviss [New York: Appleton, 1901]

  • Ballooning:
    • Travels in the Air edited by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher [London: Bentley, 1871]
    • Aërial Navigation: A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aërostats, Aëroplanes, and Aëromotors by Frederick Walker [New York: Van Nostrand, 1902]

  • Electromagnetism:
    • Experiments and observations on electricity by Benjamin Franklin [London: E. Cave, 1751].
    • Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday [London: Dent, 1869]
    • A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell: Volume I --- Volume II [Oxford: Clarendon, 1873]
    • History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity by E. T. Whittaker [London: Longmans, Green, 1910].
    • The Papers of Thomas Edison [Rutgers, 2008].

  • Mathematics:
    • Elements of Algebra by Leonhard Euler [London: Longman, Rees, Orme, 1828]. With notes by Bernoulli and additions by Lagrange.
    • The First Six Books of Euclid's Elements, in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners by Oliver Byrne [London: Pickering, 1847]
    • A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan [London: Longmans, Green, 1872]
    • A Treatise on Differential Equations by George Boole [London: Macmillan, 1877] There is also a supplementary volume [1865, so perhaps incorporated into the later edition.]
    • Elements of Quaternions by (the late) Sir William Rowan Hamilton (2nd edition) Volume I --- Volume II [London: Longmans, Green, 1899-1901]

  • Physics:
    • Theory of Heat by James Clerk Maxwell [London: Longmans, Green, 1902]. As revised by Lord Rayleigh (1891).
    • Matter and Motion by James Clerk Maxwell [London: SPCK, 1920]. Reprint of 1877 edition, with new notes by Larmor.
    • Hydrodynamics by Sir Horace Lamb [Cambridge, 1895]
    • Theoretical Mechanics: An Introductory Treatise on the Principles of Dynamics by A. E. H. Love [Cambridge, 1897]
    • A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by A. E. H. Love [Cambridge, 1906]
    • Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909 by Max Planck [New York: Columbia, 1915]
    • On the quantum theory of line-spectra by Niels Bohr. Volume I and Volume II [Copenhagen: Host, 1918]
    • Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein [London: Methuen, 1922]
    • The Mathematical Theory of Relativity by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington [Cambridge, 1923]
    • The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein [Princeton, 1923]

  • Radioactivity:
    • Radio-Active Substances by Marie Curie [London: Chemical News, 1904].

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