Classics not in PG/Science
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One possible source for lists gathering science classics is what was printed. There are several fine bookseries, for example
Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften ('Classics of exact sciences')
Several of the 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written are science books, and are missing from PG. These would be good science books to add. Given are the originals first, and indented the translations:
- Euclid Στοιχεῖα (325 BCE)
- Nicolaus Copernicus: De revolutionibus (1543) Scans at Lehigh
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (transl. Edward Rosen) web version
- Johannes Kepler: Harmonices Mundi libri V (1619) NUMDAM Scans
- Harmony of the Worlds
- Weltharmonik
- Galileo Galilei (1632)
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, currently proj_submit_pgposted
- Arthur Schopenhauer: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1819) PDF, web version
- The World as Will and Idea
- Soren Kierkegaard Enten-Eller (1843)
- Either/Or
- Entweder-Oder (transl. Michelsen/Gleiß, 1885) web version
- Herbert Spencer: First Principles (1862) Scans at UVirg
- Die ersten Prinzipien
- James Clerk Maxwell: Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873) Part 1 Scans, Part 2 Scans at OL