Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041 - Free Audiobook

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041 - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Various,

Language: English

1 / 18An Account of the System of the World (described in Mr Newton's Mathematical Principles of Philosophy)

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18 Chapter(s)
  • 1. An Account of the System of the World (described in Mr Newton's Mathematical Principles of Philosophy)
  • 2. Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes
  • 3. Concerning The Notion of Liberty and of Moral Agency
  • 4. Cuban Folklore
  • 5. George Sand, a Biography
  • 6. Gravel
  • 7. Henry Trengrouse and His Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus
  • 8. How To Ring A Church Bell Properly
  • 9. A Modest Proposal
  • 10. Mr. G.K. Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc
  • 11. Of Academical Freedom
  • 12. Of Personal Identity
  • 13. Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
  • 14. A Peccary Hunt on the Nueces
  • 15. Plants of the Shore
  • 16. Signals in Use in the Port of Sydney, New South Wales
  • 17. The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli, A Review
  • 18. A Woman Who Went to Alaska

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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and Newton's world view; church bells and chocolate cake; naval flag signals, rocket life-saving apparatus, and seashore plants and pebbles; also many literary and philosophical figures including Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Edwards, Johann Fichte, Joseph Butler, George Sand, Marie Corelli, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc. (summary by Sue Anderson)

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