On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
10 best books like On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (William Harvey): Principles of Geology, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, The New Organon, Three Treatises, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 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, Ptolemy's Almagest, Elements of Chemistry
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 | 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 | Martin Luther |
| ISBN | 0800616391 |
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...
| Author | John Locke |
| ISBN | 1595478345 |
TO EDWARD CLARKE, of Chipley, Esq. SIR: THESE thoughts concerning education, which now come abroad into the world, do of right belong to you, being written several years since for your sake, and are no other than what you have already by you in my letters. I have so little vary'd any thing, but only the order...
| 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 | 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 | Pierre Corneille |
| ISBN | 1419142542 |
Pierre Corneille was a 17th century dramatist who produced plays over a 40 year span. Along with Moliere and Racine he is considered to be the founder of French tragedy. He is best known for El Cid which was a 1636 tragic/comedy. Written in 1641 Polyeucte was based on the life of the martyr Saint Polyeuctus....
| 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 | 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...
The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Books 1 - 2
| Author | Euclid |
| ISBN | 0486600882 |
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,...
| Author | Galileo Galilei |
| ISBN | 0226279030 |
"This fine translation is a god-send. . . . Surely you want to read what Galileo wrote. If so buy this book. Van Helden's introduction is scholarly; no one knows more about Galileo's telescope; the translation is superb; Van Helden's review of the reception of the Sidereal Messenger is profound; the...
| Author | Peter J. Bowler |
| ISBN | 0520236939 |
Since its original publication in 1983, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This new edition has been entirely rewritten to take account of the latest work...
