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Campbell, G., Duke of Argyll. Preface. The Reign of Law. 1860.
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Other primary sources online
Athenaeum Project. A searchable online database of reviews and reviewers from the Athenaeum newspaper.
Books On-line by John Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania. This engine provides links to most online text collections. Frequently updated.
[Chambers, Robert] Explanations: A Sequel to "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." By the author of that work. 1st ed. London: John Churchill, 1845.
[Chambers, Robert] Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. London, 1844.
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Combe, G. A System of Phrenology. 2 vols. 5th ed. 1853.
Combe, G. The Life and Correspondence of Andrew Combe M.D. 1850.
Combe, G., The Constitution of Man considered in relation to external objects. 8th ed. Edinburgh, 1847.
Combe, G. Science and Religion. 1893. (First published in 1857.)
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. All of Darwin's published work, as well as correspondence and manuscripts, in citable form with page numbers and illustrations. By John van Wyhe.
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. An enormous digital library with texts in fifteen languages. Most of these texts are presented in beautiful html with pagination and other aspects of the originals preserved.
Classic Papers in the History of Chemistry.
Selected Classic Papers in the History of Chemistry by Carmen Giunta.
The Journal of Syms Covington by Vern Weitzel.
Delta Omega Classics. A collection of classic texts from the history of medicine, available as PDFs.
Galton, Francis. Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences. 2nd ed. 1892. With commentary and related primary documents such as correspondence.
Gibbon, Charles. The Life of George Combe: Author of "The Constitution of Man." 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co., 1878. Download volume 1; volume 2.
The Internet Library of Early Journals. Complete page images of 20 year runs of: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, The Builder, The Annual Register, The Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, & Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
J.D. Hooker by Jim Endersby. Several texts by Hooker.
The Huxley File by Charles Blinderman & David Joyce. Includes the nine-volume Collected Essays, 40 selections from the five-volume Scientific Memoirs, and many more sources and images.
Life of Leonard Jenyns by by Roger F.Vaughan.
Lundie, H. The Phrenological Mirror; or, Delineation Book. 1844.
Making of America. One of the largest and best online text collections. Although limited to American texts, some books are American editions by foreign authors. Thousands of journal articles. Text searches available.
History of Mathematics at St. Andrews.
History of Mathematics by Earl Fife & Larry Husch.
McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought.
Quarterly Review Archive. Edited by Jonathan Cutmore.
Paley, William. Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. 1802.
Penny Magazine. Select issues from the 1830s.
Philosophietexte im Internet. A collection of texts by German philosophers and scientists of the nineteenth century (including Helmholtz and Wundt).
19th Century Scientific American Online.
Townsend, L. T. The Bible and other ancient literature in the nineteenth century. 1889.
Alfred Russel Wallace by Charles H. Smith.
Internet History of Science Sourcebook by Paul Halsall. Many unique primary text extracts.
Project Gutenberg. Still the most extensive on-line text collection, although unfortunately opposed to preserving any bibliographical information.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE Thousands of German texts.
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