In this biography, John Fiske explores the life and contributions of Edward Livingston Youmans, a 19th century American science writer and popularizer. Youmans was instrumental in promoting the idea of…

A Sketch of His Life with selections from his published writings and extracts from his correspondence with Spencer, Huxley, Tyndall and others. Fiske, noted American philosopher and historian, narrates the…

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

A collection of essays exploring the fundamental relationships between energy, matter, and the natural world. Written by two great minds of 19th-century science, this book is a classic of the…

The Correlation and Conservation of Forces - A Series of Expositions is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…