The Primordia Press collection
A closer look
at Nature.
Historical works. Enduring questions.
Books on chemistry, agriculture, and the art of observation.
PRIMORDIA PRESSThe collection
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Primordia Press
Old books.
Fresh attention.
Primordia Press brings historical works on nature, chemistry, and agriculture into clear, carefully prepared reading editions.
Our collection begins with F. F. Runge’s studies of substances and everyday chemistry, alongside J. G. Wallerius’s inquiry into the fertility of the soil. These books reward close observation, comparison, and curiosity.
English translations and historical reading editions, with careful typesetting, formatting, and proofreading.
“Those who are inflamed by the urge to expand their knowledge of nature and strive to observe nature’s individual parts in themselves and in their mutual relationship (...) will soon lack the yardstick that helped them when they saw things in human terms. They lack the yardstick given by pleasure or displeasure, the yardstick of attracting and repulsing. This they must relinquish entirely and instead they should seek and examine, as impartial and almost divine beings, what is to be found in nature and not what pleases them.”
“Only start on rising picture research if you are really serious and are prepared to continue for several years with the necessary dedication. This is not about making ten rising pictures that may not show anything and then giving up!”