Any recomendation on old science textbooks? I feel comfy reading old textbooks because prefer the old writing style of people back then, a bit purple prose, but much better than today's dry writing.
If the books are less outdated with current science, the better, but I wont be rejecting anything. Just feel free to post.
Google Books has it.
Read anything by Dover books. Everything they print is pre 70's just about.
>>8141549
An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics (Dover Books on Astronomy) by Forest Ray Moulton
>>8141549
Go with Dover and MIR Publishers. The soviet books are pretty good.
>>8144979
recommend soviet textbooks, they're really simple and good if you want a very general understanding of different subjects
>>8145006
Any in particular? Not op btw.
>>8145006
Soviet text book guy?
I'm not sure what my book was called, but it was a "Modern Science" book from like 1938. It had eugenics as the last chapter, and references Luther Burbank and how a family comparing the first and second marriages resulted in a "feeble minded" lineage in one case, and a normal-minded (I think that was the way they put it) in the other. I found it in a bowling alley/hotel which was being renovated. They had a lot of cool books in the attic, I wish I could've kept them.
>>8145267
Depends on what you want to learn about. As said previously, Dover tends to publish a lot of them at very cheap prices.
Here's an image. I don't think it was from the book with eugenics, but was still an old book. Right inside the cover.
>>8141549
how old you talking about OP?
