Science
Authors listed chronologically
The Hellenistic Period, 323–146 BCE
Aristotle (384–322 BC)
Physics (or Physica);
On the Heavens (or De Caelo);
On Generation and Corruption (or De Generatione et Corruptione);
Meteorology (or Meteorologica);
On the Soul (or De Anima);
Parva Naturalia (or Little Physical Treatises):;
On sense and the sensible (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus);
On memory and reminiscence (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia);
On sleep and sleeplessness (or De Somno et Vigilia);
On Dreams (or De Insomniis);
On prophesying by dreams (or De Divinatione per Somnum);
On longevity and shortness of life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae);
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration (or De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De
Respiratione);
The History of Animals (or Historia Animalium, or Description of Animals);
On the parts of Animals (or De Partibus Animalium);
On the motion of animals (or De Motu Animalium);
On the Gait of Animals (or De Incessu Animalium);
On the Generation of Animals (or De Generatione Animalium)
Euclid, ca.300 BCE
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
Archimedes, ca.287–212 BCE
On the Sphere and Cylinder;
Measurement of a Circle;
On Conoids and Spheroids;
On Spirals;
On the Equilibrium of Planes;
The Sand-Reckoner;
The Quadrature of the Parabola;
On Floating Bodies;
Book of Lemmas;
The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of Perga, ca. 262 BC–ca. 190 BC
On Conic Sections
The Classical Age
Nicomachus of Gerasa, c. 60–c. 120
Introduction to Arithmetic
Ptolemy, c.90–c.168
The Almagest
Lucretius (98?–55 BC)
On the nature of things
Galen, 131–201
On the Natural Faculties
The "Dark" Age
Renaissance
Bacon, Roger, 1214?–1294
Friar Bacon His Discovery of the Miracles of Art, Nature, and Magick
Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473–1543
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Andreas Vesalius, 1514-1564
On the fabric of the human body
Robert Hooke, 1635-1703
Micrographia
William Gilbert, 1540–1603
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
Johannes Kepler, 1571–1630
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV – V);
The Harmonies of the World (Book V)
William Harvey, 1578–1657
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals;
On the Circulation of Blood;
On the Generation of Animals
Francis Bacon, 1561–1626
Advancement of Learning;
Novum Organum;
New Atlantis
The Age of Enlightenment
René Descartes, 1596–1650
Rules for the Direction of the Mind [1628];
Discourse on the Method [1637];
Meditations on First Philosophy [1641];
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies;
The Geometry [1637]
Blaise Pascal, 1623–1662
Scientific and mathematical essays
Isaac Newton, 1642–1727
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy;
Optics
Christiaan Huygens, 1629–1693
Treatise on Light
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646–1716
George Berkeley, 1685–1753
An Essay towards a new theory of Vision [1709, 1732];
The Analyst: a Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician [1734];
A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics [1735]
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743–1794
Elements of Chemistry
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, 1768–1830
Analytical Theory of Heat
Michael Faraday, 1797–1867
Experimental Researches in Electricity
Jean–Baptiste Lamarck, 1744–1829
Philosophie zoologique
Edward Jenner, 1749–1823
On Vaccination Against Smallpox
Thomas Malthus, 1766–1834
An essay on the principle of population
Alexander von Humboldt, 1769–1859
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Joseph Lister, 1827–1912
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
Louis Pasteur, 1822–1895
The germ theory and its applications to medicine and surgery
John Tyndall, 1820–1893
Six Lectures on Light [1873]
Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825–1895
Essays
James Clerk Maxwell, 1831-1879
A treatise on electricity and magnetism [1873]
Edwin A. Abbott, 1838–1926
Flatland
The Age of Uncertainty
Charles Lyell, 1797–1875
Principles of Geology;
The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man;
Elements of Geology
Charles Darwin, 1809–1882
The Voyage of the Beagle;
The Origin of Species;
The Descent of Man
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823–1913
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection
William James, 1842–1910
Principles of Psychology
See also:
Fathers of
Biology / Charles McRae [1890]
