Project Gutenberg Top 100 List

Project Gutenberg provides downloads of books which are in the public domain. Since the copywrite on books generally expires after 100 years, the Gutenberg collection has quite a few great scientific works.

As an extra service, the gutenberg website provides a daily list of their top 100 downloads. Here is a sampling of today's list.

1. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (833)


2. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (685)


3. Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (496)


4. Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (398)



5. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (354)


6. History of the United States by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard (337)


7. Inaugural Presidential Address by Barack Obama (316)


8. Our Day by William Ambrose Spicer (305)


9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (293)


10. The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography by Samuel Butler (285)


11. The Beginner's American History by D. H. Montgomery (274)


12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (270)


13. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English by Ray Vaughn Pierce (261)



14. Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank (259)


15. General Science by Bertha M. Clark (254)


16. Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires by Edgar Allan Poe (254)


17. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (214)


18. The Iliad by Homer (214)


19. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens (214)


20. The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed (211)


21. Sex by Henry Stanton (208)


22. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (207)



23. The Mafulu by Robert Wood Williamson (199)


24. Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney (195)


25. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (195)

Wow, the Illustrated History of Furniture was number 3 yesterday, and it is kind of depressing it was more popular than the Notebooks of Leonard Da Vinci, but that is the modern age, and why not?