JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post The following images relating to chemistry were found in the illustration volumes of Abraham Rees' (1743-1825) great work, Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts ...

Looking through a (massive, 20-pound!) volume of Electrical World 1 I found that it contains some of the earliest work published in the United States on Wilhelm Roentgen's seminal discovery of the ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post While flipping through William Herschel's 1801 Philosophical Transaction s paper "Observations tending to investigate the Nature of the Sun in order to find the Cause ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 855 I wonder what our human world would be like if we had evolved living in horizontal linear cities? The idea had never occurred to me before seeing the work of Edgar ...

A while ago I wrote a post on Herman Soergel's plan for extending the landmass of the countries around the Mediterranean Sea by damming the straits of Gibraltar, lowering the sea and irrigating the ...

JF Ptak Science Books I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss ' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1807 Part of the series The History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic a nd ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1139 “Radium was what was bad and worse a shiney and shining curse, till we stuck uranium in there, to make me have my 'splodin’ hair...”--Lyrics to the nonexistent song ...

JF Ptak Science Books This is the heart of the beautiful orrery created by William Pearson (1767-1847. and one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society) as found in the magisterial if not ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post (Overall post 5151) This beauty appears in the pages of Scientific American for 1896, and discusses a proposal for a bridge to connect Manhattan to Jersey, and to do ...

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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Is is easy to say that the editors here made a mistake labeling a monster "Frankenstein" as the Mary Shelley creation was only called by its creator's name by popular ...