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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World

10 best books like Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Johannes Kepler): On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, The New Organon, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, Three Treatises, Psychology: The Briefer Course, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition, Ptolemy's Almagest, Elements of Chemistry

On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
AuthorNicolaus Copernicus
ISBN0762420219
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...
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
AuthorGalileo Galilei
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...
The New Organon
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0521564832
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,...
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
AuthorRonald Hutton
ISBN0192854488
As a dozen good reviews could not begin to provide a fair account of this book, I shall offer a few key points which caught my attention as introduction only.

At the outset I had hoped for a more 'traditionally' pagan account of the ancient seasonal festivals, their origins and meanings.
I...
Three Treatises
AuthorMartin Luther
ISBN0800616391
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In these writings Luther tried to frame his ideas in terms...
Psychology: The Briefer Course
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486416046
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...
Essays on the Theory of Numbers
AuthorRichard Dedekind
ISBN0486210103
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...
The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0486600688
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...
Ptolemy's Almagest
AuthorPtolemy
ISBN0691002606
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...
Elements of Chemistry
AuthorAntoine Lavoisier
ISBN0486646246
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...
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
AuthorWilliam Harvey
ISBN1425464971
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,...
Hippocratic Writings
AuthorHippocrates
ISBN0140444513
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
AuthorMichael Faraday
ISBN0486435059
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...
The Provincial Letters
AuthorBlaise Pascal
ISBN1419179292
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...
Opticks
AuthorIsaac Newton
ISBN0486602052
"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...
The Works of Archimedes
AuthorArchimedes
ISBN0486420841
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...
Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living With Others on a Small Planet
AuthorLiz Greene
ISBN0877284180
Out of the handful I've read, this is my favorite astrology book. It doesn't really focus on particular signs all that much, but rather elemental groups (wind, water, fire, earth) and moving astral bodies (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, etc) that effect us. I found the element characteristics really dead...
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
AuthorThomas S. Kuhn
ISBN0674171039
For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and...
The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Books 1 - 2
AuthorEuclid
ISBN0486600882
Volume 1 of 3-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; commentators; refutations,...
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1
AuthorJames Clerk Maxwell
ISBN0486606368
Volume 1 of an important foundation work of modern physics describes electrostatic phenomena and develops a mathematical theory of electricity. Topics include electrical work and energy in a system of conductors, mechanical action between two electrical systems, spherical harmonics, electric...
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (Revised)
AuthorGregor Mendel
ISBN0674278003
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,...
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
AuthorOwen Gingerich
ISBN0143034766
After three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing-Gingerich has written an utterly original book built on his experience and the remarkable insights gleaned from examining some 600 copies of "De...
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