Popular Science Monthly: Free Issues to Read Online
Popular Science Monthly is a public-domain magazine (from 1872). You can read the issues below free at Project Gutenberg. Science for general readers, as it looked in 1899.
About Popular Science Monthly
Popular Science Monthly was an American magazine founded in 1872 by Edward L. Youmans to bring science to general readers. In the 1890s it was published by D. Appleton and Company as Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. The 1899 issues show how people then thought about science, medicine and technology.
Free issues
- Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899Project Gutenberg #45361 · added Apr 11, 2014
- Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1899Project Gutenberg #47024 · added Oct 2, 2014
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Is it suitable for children?
Written for adults in 1899. The science is outdated and some articles include ideas about race and society that are wrong. Treat it as history, not as a source of current facts. Suggested age: 14+.
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