Science History

The birth of NASA began many years before Kennedy's famous creation of the race to the moon. This seldom revealed history is interesting for adults and children alike. Man is an explorer... our expedition continues.

Under the term Old-Time Medicine most people probably think at once of Greek medicine, since that developed in what we have called ancient history, and is farthest away from us in date. As a matter of fact, however, much more is known about Greek medical writers than those of any other period except the last century or two.

This Discourse some years after falling into the hands of some Learned men, had the good luck to be so favourably receiv'd, and advantageously spoken of by them, that having had more then ordinary Invitations given me to make it publick, I thought fit to review it, that I might retrench some things that seem'd not so fit to be shewn to every Reader.

An ingenious student of science once entertained his generation with a theory of how one might behold again all the stirring chapters that make up the story of the earth. The living scene of our time is lit by the light of the sun, and for every few rays that enter the human eye, and convey the image of it to the human mind, great floods of the reflected light pour out, swiftly and indefinitely, into space. Imagine, then, a man moving out into space more rapidly than light, his face turned toward the earth.

Planting man on another planet, colonizing Mars or Venus, expanding man's outreach to the farthest parts of the galaxy... Mankind is beginning to explore for places to land its ships... the 21st century Lewis and Clark expedition is closer than you would think.

Myth, as it is understood by us, and as It will be developed and explained in this work, cannot be defined in summary terms, since its multiform and comprehensive nature embraces and includes all primitive action, as well as much which is consecutive and historical in the intelligence and feelings of man, with respect to the immediate and the reflex interpretation of the world, of the Individual, and of the society in which our common life is passed.

For those enthusiasts that really want to reduce their carbon footprint, compressor-less ammonia air conditioning may be the key. Ice making houses existed BEFORE electricity and electric refrigerators. These old reprints give the practical applications that make it work.