Life going on underground has always been very interesting to me--particularly so when a good tech story is accompanied by great art. This is certainly the case with the cover story for the September ...

Thomas Cooper, a merry, upper-educated intellectual called “a learned and talented mapcap” by none other than John Adams, wrote from his secure chair South Carolina College a translation of a rather ...

[George Fred Keck] Green’s Ready-Built Homes Present the Solar Home,The Solar Home. 1944, copyright: Green's Ready-Built Homes, Rockford, Illinois. 12pp. 11.5x8 ...

John Alexander Henderson. J.A. Henderson's Intellectual and Practical Lightning Calculator, A.L. Bancroft, San Francisco, 1872. First edition. Original wrappers. 7x5", 79pp. Provenance: Library of ...

Marchione di Coppo Stefani was born in Florence in 1336. He wrote his Florentine Chronicle in the late 1370s and early 1380s. [Stefani, Marchione di Coppo.Cronaca fiorentina. Rerum Italicarum ...

I have a small collection of 18th and 19th century notebooks--ciphering books, tally books, keepsakes--kept by children and young adults. These books are remarkable for their contents, empty ...

From darkness to promote me?"--John Milton, Paradise Lost (X.743–5) The animated human created by Victor Frankenstein in 20-year-old Mary Shelley's anonymously published Frankenstein, or the Modern ...

And all that appears confusedly on walls is very like the vibration of bells: you can hear in their ringing all the sounds or words you want to imagine." - Leonardo da Vinci 1492 Finding recurring ...

Almost all have a small (1/8th x 1/2-inch or thereabouts) rubber stamped "index" or "indexed" on the front wrapper, and most of those are half-faded). As follows: “The Static Atom”, reprinted from ...

This paper is one a small archive of background and draft papers and proposals by the Vannevar Bush group working on the question of the control of atomic weapons and the formalization of the American ...

This map is an interesting early attempt to embed complex statistical information into map form. It shows us the countries of origin of new immigrants to each state and the occupations of the adult ...

Welcome! This blog started in January 2008 as a history of science blog that related to my bookstore, but within the first two months the content spilled over into all sorts of unexpected areas, and I ...