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• The Mirrour of True Nobility and Gentility: Being the Life of the Renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius, Lord of Pieresk, Senator of the Parliament at Aix (London: Printed by J. Streater for H. Moseley, 1657), by Pierre Gassendi, trans. by William Rand (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Great Astronomers, by Robert S. Ball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, by George Biddell Airy (Gutenberg text)

• Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (London: J. Murray, 1876), by Mrs. John Herschel, contrib. by Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1919), by W. J. Humphreys (page images at Google)
• Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
  • HTML at UMD
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text

• 1634: The Galileo Affair (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Moon Walk 1835: Was Neil Armstrong Really the First Man on the Moon? (1990 edition of Locke's "Great Astronomical Discoveries..."), by Richard Adams Locke, ed. by C. W. Tazewell (HTML at archive.org)

• 1634: The Galileo Affair (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB

• Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (London: J. Murray, 1876), by Mrs. John Herschel, contrib. by Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Women Worth Emulating (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1877), by Clara Lucas Balfour
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, by George Biddell Airy (Gutenberg text)

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Watchers of the Sky, by Alfred Noyes (Gutenberg text)

• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text
• Reminiscences of Famous Women (Buffalo and New York: Evans-Penfold Co., c1916), by Harriet A. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1919), by W. J. Humphreys (page images at Google)
• Professor Abbe and the Isobars: The Story of Cleveland Abbe, America's First Weatherman (New York: Vantage Press, c1955), by Truman Abbe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archimedes (London: Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1920), by Thomas Little Heath (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Archimedes, by Chris Rorres (illustrated HTML at NYU)

• Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
  • HTML at UMD
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The Martyrs of Science: or, The Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (London: J. Murray, 1841), by David Brewster (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Galileo Galilei Nella Poesia Del Suo Secolo: Raccolta di Poesie Edite e Inedite Scritte da' Contemporanei in Lode di Galileo, Pubblicate in Occasione Del 3. Centenario delle Sue Scoperte Celesti (in Italian; Milan et al.: R. Sandron, 1910), by Nunzio Vaccalluzzo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Martyrs of Science: or, The Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (London: J. Murray, 1841), by David Brewster (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Judeo-Christian Tradition: A Guide for the Perplexed (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1990), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Ethical Implications of Unity and the Divine in Nicholas of Cusa (1998), by David J. De Leonardis (PDF at crvp.org)

• Information and Communications Technology for Development: A Sourcebook for Parliamentarians (2004), ed. by B. K. Gairola, Mahesh Chandra, Pooja Mall, James George Chacko, Phet Sayo, and Helena Loh (PDF at apdip.net)

• The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston (Gutenberg text)
• Phineas Finn, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The American Senator, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Phineas Redux, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Frank Holl (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Senator North, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Socialist in Congress: His Conduct and Responsibilities (originally published 1911; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1963), by Daniel De Leon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Necro-President: Trump, MAGA, and the Decline of the American Republic (Cham: Springer, c2025), by Dean Caivano
  • multiple formats with commentary at Springer Nature Link
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Mr. Justice Black and His Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Tinsley E. Yarbrough (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peace or War: The Democratic Position Illustrated by Frank P. Blair, Jr (Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee, 1868), by Oliver P. Morton, William M. Stewart, and James W. Nye (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lives of Horatio Seymour and Frank P. Blair, Jr. (Seymour and Blair campaign edition; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., 1868) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Seymour and Blair: Their Lives and Services; With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction (New York : Richardson and Co., 1868), by David G. Croly
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Biographical Sketches of Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Democratic Nominee for President, and General Joseph Lane, Democratic Nominee for Vice President (1860), by National Democratic Executive Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (New York: The Century Co., 1893), ed. by George Washington Cable, contrib. by William Pittenger, A. E. Richards, Basil Wilson Duke, Orlando B. Willcox, Thomas Henry Hines, Frank E. Moran, W. H. Shelton, and John Taylor Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (New York: The Century Co., 1913), ed. by George Washington Cable, contrib. by William Pittenger, A. E. Richards, Basil Wilson Duke, Orlando B. Willcox, Thomas Henry Hines, Frank E. Moran, W. H. Shelton, and John Taylor Wood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (New York: The Century Co., 1915), ed. by George Washington Cable, contrib. by William Pittenger, A. E. Richards, Basil Wilson Duke, Orlando B. Willcox, Thomas Henry Hines, Frank E. Moran, W. H. Shelton, and John Taylor Wood (page images at HathiTrust)

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