The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition
10 best books like The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition (René Descartes): On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, The New Organon, Proslogion, The Vanity of Human Wishes, Psychology: The Briefer Course, The Annals/The Histories, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World, Ptolemy's Almagest, Elements of Chemistry
| Author | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| ISBN | 0762420219 |
New to our On the Shoulders of Giants series, this groundbreaking work of astronomy proposed a heliocentric universe in which planets orbited the sun-daring to challenge the Ptolemaic ideal of the earth as the center of the universe. This essay by Copernicus (1473-1543), revolutionized the way we...
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN | 0521564832 |
Since I’ve lately read Aristotle’s original, I thought I’d go ahead and read Bacon’s New Organon. The title more or less says it all. For this book is an attempt to recast the method of the sciences in a better mold. Whereas Aristotle spends pages and pages enumerating the various types of syllogisms,...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 0268016976 |
In the Proslogion, St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's proof, known since the time of Kant as the ontological argument for the existence of God, has played an important role in the history of philosophy and has been incorporated in various forms into the systems...
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| ISBN | 0948807326 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 0486416046 |
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.
To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0812966996 |
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius,...
| Author | Richard Dedekind |
| ISBN | 0486210103 |
This volume contains the two most important essays on the logical foundations of the number system by the famous German mathematician J. W. R. Dedekind. The first presents Dedekind's theory of the irrational number-the Dedekind cut idea-perhaps the most famous of several such theories created in...
| Author | Johannes Kepler |
| ISBN | 1573920363 |
The brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion: that the planets move not in circular but elliptical orbits, that their speed is greatest when...
| Author | Ptolemy |
| ISBN | 0691002606 |
Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard...
| Author | Antoine Lavoisier |
| ISBN | 0486646246 |
Monumental classic by the founder of modern chemistry is essential for undergraduate students. First explicit statement of law of conservation of matter in chemical change; first modern list of chemical elements; more. Facsimile reprint of original (1790) Kerr translation. Introduction by Professor...
| Author | William Harvey |
| ISBN | 1425464971 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Hippocrates |
| ISBN | 0140444513 |
It is impossible to be certain which, if any, of the works in the Hippocratic corpus were written by Hippocrates himself (c.430 BC). His fame was such that many Greek medical writings became attributed to him. What they have in common is not dogma but, rather, constructive debate between one another....
Experimental Researches in Electricity
| Author | Michael Faraday |
| ISBN | 0486435059 |
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was the greatest physicist of the nineteenth century, a pioneer in experimentation in the fields of electricity and magnetism. He is best known for his discovery of the principle of electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrolysis.
In Experimental Researches...
| Author | Plotinus |
| ISBN | 0915144093 |
Building on the teachings of Plato and with his profound impact on the Christian contemplative tradition, Plotinus is one of the most influential philosophers in the Western tradition. If you would like to begin studying Plotinus, this little book of selections translated by Elmer...
| Author | Blaise Pascal |
| ISBN | 1419179292 |
Pascal had his Abyss, moving right along beside him -
Alas! Everything’s an Abyss - actions, desires and dreams!
Charles Baudelaire
MENE, MENE TEKEL!
These words appeared, written on the wall, to the mighty King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in a nocturnal nightmare. The...
| Author | Isaac Newton |
| ISBN | 0486602052 |
"Recommended to all scientists." — Journal of Royal Naval Scientific Service
"The publishers do us a service by issuing this reprint." — The Institute of Physics
"An underpinning for the entire edifice of physics." — Scientific American
A comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century...
| Author | Archimedes |
| ISBN | 0486420841 |
The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and...
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Books 10 - 13
| Author | Euclid |
| ISBN | 0486600904 |
Volume 3 of three-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval,...
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN | 0879756705 |
In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader may sense that Mill is being pulled in opposing directions: steadfastly committed to majority rule...
| Author | Auguste Comte |
| ISBN | 0872200507 |
This is a neat introduction to "positivism," which anyone trying to understand modern intellectual history will need to confront. This little pamphlet was originally part of a much longer series of lectures written and delivered by Comte, but it stands on its own as a basic introduction to his premises....
| Author | Henri Poincaré |
| ISBN | 0486602214 |
Here is Poincaré's famous discussion of creative psychology as it is revealed in the physical sciences. Explaining how such basic concepts as number and magnitude, space and force were developed, the great French mathematician refutes the skeptical position that modern scientific method and...
