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GREEK ORIGINS

Produs Diadochus, Commentary on Euclid's Elements
Euclid, Elements
Aristotle, Physics On the Heavens
Cleomedes, The Measurement of the Circumference of the Earth
Simplicius, The Scope of Astronomy contrasted with that of Physics
Archimedes, The Law of the Lever and Some Applications
Plutarch, Life of Marcellus

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

Copernicus, Commentariolus
Galileo, The Starry Messenger
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematics Opticks
Francis Bacon, The New Organon

THE GROWTH AND MATURATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Aggasiz, Methods of Study of Natural History
Clausius, The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Louis Pasteur, The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery
Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle
Albert Einstein, The Special and General Theory of Relativity
Paul and Marie Curie, Polonium
Eve Curie, Marie Curie: A Biography
Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, The Dawn of Astronomy; Evolution
Siv Cedering, Letters from the Astronomers

SCIENCE AS A WAY OF KNOWING

Peirce, The Fixation of Belief
Henri Poincare, The Foundations of Science
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Fox-Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science
G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Ronald A. Fischer, Mathematics of a Lady Tasting Tea

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Albert Einstein, Science and Religion
Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christiana