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 Post #73 The idea of how we put parameters to something like the visual field is a gargantuan topic—it is something that architects and geometers and physicists and ...

JF Ptak Science Books "A Warning Light", April 2, 1881, appearing in Harper's Weekly, double-page image, 22x16". There are a few short tears extending into the image very slightly, otherwise a GOOD ...

The Worst Job of the 19th Century? Tongue-Pullers, Nipple-Pinchers & Anal Tobacco Blowers Try to Revive the Dead.

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1659 (expanded) When you think of expense and medical care, why on Earth should any of it cost so much? Well, that question would make more sense if asked in the year 1819, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1708 [This is one in a series of posts prompted by my current reading of Larry McMurtry's novel, Lonesome Dove.] The Indian of the Plains had few options in the 1860s and ...

Rare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, ...

I've made several posts on images of large crowds (most recently on the incredible aerial photograph of the crowd of 100,000 spectators at the Dempsey-Carpentier fight), sometimes using the crowds to ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This fantastic timeline of the U.S. Civil War (History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865) was compiled by J. Kellick Bathurst, drawn by Edward Perrin, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1498 "Nabed Efyhik Wfnzo Cpmfke'"--Issac Newton, ca. 1660 So begins this extraordinary work known as the Fitzwilliam Manuscript1: Isaac Newton's name, plus for words on two ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1676 ” [Smoking is] a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest ...