In the world of found-book-objects, few I think are as deeply removed and as deeply obscure as the work by Otto F. Fleiss, a butcher and sculptor in fat. And lard. The pamphlet's title is a throw-back ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2425 Here's an interesting set of delightful photographs (and one painting) of some great scientists as babies and kids. Many of them are obvious, I think, and you can see ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2683 This is a king-hell cover for Popular Mechanics, appearing in March, 1930, and I was about to say it reminded me of other rocket ship designs from that era except that ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2461 At first glance this detailed and dense map looks foreboding and somehow off-putting--at least for me, and that was before I understood what the numbers represented.

JF Ptak Science Books Extending Post 1470 A while ago I wrote a post on Herman Soergel's plan for extending the landmass of the countries around the Mediterranean Sea by damming the straits of ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 781 Blog Bookstore Nels Quevli, the Mason City, Iowa author of the oddly-titled What Should be Done with the Bodies of the Dead (1936), does indeed have a point that ...

JF Ptak Science Books I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss ' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

Einstein, Albert. Three papers by Albert Einstein in volume 22 (1907) of the Annalen der Physik. "Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung ueber die Theorie des Spezifischen Warme" ("Planck's Theory of ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 502 Actually, these maps are hardly maps of lunar nothingness--on the contrary, they are among the most detailed maps ever produced (to their times) of the lunar surface ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1248 Yes, the heavens are made of circles, somewhat, especially if you were observing a three-dimensional figure in two-space, where all spheres are circles. But here we're ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post The initial reaction to this fantastic set of book cover designs by Aleksandr Rodochenko (found at the FlyerGoodness blog, here) was for inclusion in this blog's ...

JF Ptak Science Books This is the heart of the beautiful orrery created by William Pearson (1767-1847. and one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society) as found in the magisterial if not ...