Landmarks of science II
Description
Landmark Books was a children's book series published by Random House from 1950 to 1970, featuring stories of significant people and events in American history written by popular authors at the time. The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974. Select titles from the American and World series were reissued in paperback from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Volumes in the initial run of the American, World, and Giant series were numbered, and a list of titles was printed on the inside of each book's dust jacket. The series would grow to include 122 American, 63 World, and 25 Giant volumes by noted authors like C. S. Forester, Robert Penn Warren, Pearl S. Buck, Quentin Reynolds, MacKinlay Kantor, Shirley Jackson, Daniel J. Boorstin, and many others.
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Sidereus nuncius
Digitized facsimile of the 1610 Venice edition of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius from the copy in the Warnock Library; the English translation by Albert Van Helden (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989) and a commentary by Van Helden.
The history of physick from the time of Galen to the beginning of the sixteenth century
On the clasping-organs ancillary to generation in certain groups of the lepidoptera
Account of the ferry across the Tay at Dundee
Technical description of the earliest steam ferry across the River Tay at Dundee on the east coast of Scotland in 1821. Includes illustration of remote control gear which enabled the helmsman to operate the engine controls from the deck - probably a world first. His description concentrates on the second vessel built for the ferry, called the George lV, built 1824. These vessels were twin hulled (catamaran) types with a paddle wheel in the central well. Although not specified by Hall, the design concept may have been strongly influed by Robert Fulton's similar ferries in the Hudson River and also by the ferry Aetna across the Mersey at Liverpool.