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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge (second American edition, 12 volumes; Philadelphia: Mitchell, Ames and White, 1818), by William Nicholson
American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge (third American edition, 12 volumes; Philadelphia: Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819-1821), by William Nicholson
The British Encyclopedia: or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge (6 volumes; London: Printed by C. Whittingham for Longman et al., 1809), by William Nicholson, illust. by Wilson Lowry and John Scott
A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (3 volumes (2 text; 1 plates); London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1806-1807), by G. Gregory, illust. by Samuel John Neele, Robert Cooper, and Charles Heath
A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (second American edition from the last London edition; New York: Pub. for W.T. Robinson by Collins and Co., 1821-1822), by G. Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves (2 volumes; London: Printed for D. Brown et al., 1708-1710), by John Harris
A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), ed. by William Thomas Brande and Joseph Cauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge: With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by William Thomas Brande, contrib. by Joseph Cauvin
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Sciences: Translated from the German of the Bilder-Atlas (Iconographische Encyclopaedie), Revised and Enlarged by Eminent American Specialists (7 volulmes; Philadelphia: Iconographic Publishing House, c1885-1890), ed. by Daniel G. Brinton, John Foster Kirk, Allan Marquand, W. N. Lockington, William H. Wahl, Robert Grimshaw, John H. Cooper, E. A. Posselt, Louis H. Spellier, and Angelo Heilprin

Filed under: Science -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800

The New Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: or, An Universal System of Useful Knowledge (2 volumes; London: A. Hogg and S. Leacroft, 1778), contrib. by Erasmus Middleton, William Turnbull, Thomas Ellis, and John Davison
- Volume I (A-H): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (I-Z): multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Natural history -- Dictionaries

A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (3 volumes (2 text; 1 plates); London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1806-1807), by G. Gregory, illust. by Samuel John Neele, Robert Cooper, and Charles Heath
A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (second American edition from the last London edition; New York: Pub. for W.T. Robinson by Collins and Co., 1821-1822), by G. Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (16 volumes (13 dictionary and 3 atlas volumes), in French; 1844-1849), by Charles d' Orbigny (page images at HathiTrust)
Természettudományi szóhalmaz. (scientific dictionary between Hungarian and other languages; Budán: Magyar Királyi Egyetem, 1843), by Pál Bugát (page images at HathiTrust)
American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge (second American edition, 12 volumes; Philadelphia: Mitchell, Ames and White, 1818), by William Nicholson
American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge (third American edition, 12 volumes; Philadelphia: Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819-1821), by William Nicholson
The British Encyclopedia: or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge (6 volumes; London: Printed by C. Whittingham for Longman et al., 1809), by William Nicholson, illust. by Wilson Lowry and John Scott

Filed under: Botany -- Dictionaries

Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of All Plants Known in Britain; With a Full Explanation of Technical Terms. New Ed. Including All the New Plants Up to the Present Year (new edition; London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1868), by Joseph Paxton, ed. by Samuel Hereman

Filed under: Science -- Data processing -- Dictionaries

The Data Analysis Briefbook, by Rudolf K. Bock and Werner Krischer (illustrated HTML at CERN)

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Filed under: Science

Hanging on to the Edges: Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences (partial serial archives)
Bulletin (New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) (partial serial archives)
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (partial serial archives)
Science Since Babylon (enlarged edition; New York and London: Yale University Press, c1975), by Derek J. de Solla Price (multiple formats at derekdesollaprice.org)
Bulletin of the United States National Museum (full serial archives)
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (partial serial archives)
Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology (1995), by Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development (page images with commentary at NAP)
Science, Evolution, and Creationism (2007), by National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
The Next Hundred Years: The Unfinished Business of Science (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1936), by C. C. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)
The Nature of the World and of Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1926), ed. by Horatio Hackett Newman, contrib. by W. C. Allee, George William Bartelmez, J. Harlen Bretz, Anton J. Carlson, Rollin T. Chamberlin, Fay-Cooper Cole, Merle C. Coulter, Henry Chandler Cowles, Elliot Rowland Downing, Edwin O. Jordan, Charles Hubbard Judd, Harvey Brace Lemon, Forest Ray Moulton, Alfred Sherwood Romer, and Julius Stieglitz (page images at HathiTrust)
Address of Professor Benjamin Peirce, President of the American Association for the Year 1853, On Retiring from the Duties of President, by Benjamin Peirce (page images at Cornell)
The Age of Science: A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century (published as by "Merlin Nostradamus"; London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, ca. 1877), by Frances Power Cobbe (page images at HathiTrust)
Aphorisms and Reflections From the Works of T. H. Huxley, by Thomas Henry Huxley, ed. by Henrietta A. Huxley (illustrated HTML at clarku.edu)
Autobiography and Selected Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley, ed. by Ada L. F. Snell (Gutenberg text)
The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors; Sun and Moon; Earthquakes; Flying-Machines; Coal; Gambling; Coincidences; Ghosts, etc. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co.; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874), by Richard A. Proctor (page images at HathiTrust)
The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors; Sun and Moon; Gambling; Earthquakes; Flying-Machines; Coal; Coincidences; Ghosts, etc. ("Knowledge" library edition; London: Wyman and Sons, ca. 1882), by Richard A. Proctor (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Catechism of Familiar Things: Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery; With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena, For the Use of Schools and Families (new and improved edition; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1847), by Emily Elizabeth Willement (multiple formats at Google)
A Catechism of Familiar Things: Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery; With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena, For the Use of Schools and Families (enlarged and revised edition adapted for Catholic education; New York et al.: Benziger Bros., c1881), contrib. by Emily Elizabeth Willement
- Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Catechism on the History of Things in Common Use, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery and Improvement; With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena, For the Use of Schools and Private Families (London: Simpkin and Marshall; Colchester: J. B. Harvey, 1845), by Emily Elizabeth Willement (multiple formats at Google)
Collected Essays (9 volumes), by Thomas Henry Huxley (illustrated HTML at clarku.edu)
The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
Daedalus: or, Science and the Future, by J. B. S. Haldane (HTML at bactra.org)
Essays on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in Science (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870), by John Tyndall (multiple formats at archive.org)
Estudios Cientificos del Doctor Andres Posada con Algunos Otros Escritos Suyos Sobre Diversos Temas (in Spanish; Medellin, Colombia: C. A. Molina, 1909), by Andrés Posada Arango
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- reprint of the first half of the book: PDF with commentary in Colombia
Falling in Love, With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889), by Grant Allen (Gutenberg text)
Icarus: or, The Future of Science, by Bertrand Russell (HTML at bactra.org)
Lectures and Essays (People's Library edition (ca.1908)), by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
Lectures and Essays (London: Macmillan and Co., 1910), by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
The Poetry of Science: or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature (London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848), by Robert Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
Science and Hebrew Tradition, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg texts)
Science and Morals, and Other Essays (London: Burns and Oates, 1919), by Bertram C. A. Windle (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Science of Common Things: A Textbook of General Science (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1922), by Samuel Francis Tower and Joseph R. Lunt (page images at sciencehistory.org)
Scientific Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley
- all except for Town Geology: Gutenberg text
- Town Geology: Gutenberg text
Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) (Harvard Classics v38), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, and Charles Lyell
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- Gutenberg text
The Wonderful Century: The Age of New Ideas in Science and Invention (5th edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1903), by Alfred Russel Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Wonderful Century: The Age of New Ideas in Science and Invention (6th edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1905), by Alfred Russel Wallace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Works of John Playfair, Esq. (4 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for A. Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822), by John Playfair, ed. by James G. Playfair (page images at HathiTrust)
Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
- multiple formats at archive.org
- Gutenberg text
The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Henry Adams, contrib. by Brooks Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
Essays on Life, Art and Science, by Samuel Butler, ed. by R. A. Streatfeild (Gutenberg text)
Marvels of Modern Science (1910), by Paul Severing, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays (reprint of the 1917 edition), by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text and page images)
The Old Humanities and the New Science, by William Osler (HTML at jcmi.edu)
The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Thorstein Veblen (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man, by Noah Porter (page images at MOA)
The Fireside University: For Home Circle Study and Entertainment (Chicago: Union Publishing House, c1898), by John McGovern (multiple formats at archive.org)
Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, by Frederick G. Kilgour, ed. by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson, and Lois L. Yoakam (page images at roytennant.com)
Scientific Papers and Addresses (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1884), by George Rolleston, ed. by Wm. Turner, contrib. by Edward B. Tylor (page images at HathiTrust)

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