Elements of Chemistry
10 best books like Elements of Chemistry (Antoine Lavoisier): Principles of Geology, Euclid's Elements, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, The New Organon, Parmenides, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World, German Ideology
One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling...
| Author | Euclid |
| ISBN | 1888009195 |
Green Lion Press has prepared a new one-volume edition of T.L. Heath's translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. In keeping with Green Lion's design commitment, diagrams have been placed on every spread for convenient reference while working through the proofs; running heads on every...
| 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...
Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of...
| 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,...
This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality.
Focus Philosophical Library translations...
| 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 | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0486600688 |
This is an unabridged republication of the definitive English translation of one of the very greatest classics of science. Originally published in 1637, it has been characterized as "the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences" (John Stuart Mill); as a book which "remade...
| 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 | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| 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 | 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 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
| ISBN | 0521576601 |
رغم طول الفترة التى إمتدت خلالها قرائتى لهذا الكتاب ورغم كل الحرص والتأنى الذى بذلته أثناء قراءته إلا أنى أجد صعوبة بالغة الآن فى التعبير عن محتواه وجودته...
| 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...
| 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...
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (Revised)
| Author | Gregor Mendel |
| ISBN | 0674278003 |
One of the most influential and important scientific works ever written, the 1865 paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridisation" was all but ignored in its day, and its author, Austrian priest and scientist Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), died before seeing the dramatic long-term impact of his work,...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 1425000878 |
With this relatively minor work of proto-science, my voyage through Aristotle’s corpus continues.
Of Generation and Corruption is a very poor name for this work; a better one would be Of Coming-to-Be and Passing-Away. Those two terms capture what Aristotle is investigating: How does...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0865970564 |
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons.
Eugene...
