Euclid's Elements
10 best books like Euclid's Elements (Euclid): Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, The Nicomachean Ethics, Physics, De Anima (On the Soul), Phaedo, The Way Things are, Meno, Timaeus, Ptolemy's Almagest
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
| Author | Albert Einstein |
| ISBN | 0143039822 |
An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself
According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested...
| 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 | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140449493 |
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0192823108 |
For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since 1930, Aristotle's thought is presented accurately, with a lucid introduction and extensive notes to explain the general...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140444718 |
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'
For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)
When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0915144247 |
Is virtue the same for different people?
Yes, if ‘virtue’ consists in realising the destiny laid out for one before birth by the Self.
That is ‘what’ is the same about it in all people.
The famous ‘ignorance’ argument is laid out by Meno: ‘Those who think bad things benefit...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0872204464 |
First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeus is presented along with his 75 page introductory essay, which discusses points of contemporary interest in the Timaeus, deals at length with long-standing and current issues of interpretation, and provides...
| 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...
