Science
About this Collection
The right to inquire freely about questions of science is an important part of a free society. The discoveries that arise from this kind of open inquiry often help to build the free society even as they arise from it.
See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Science section of the Ideas page.
Members:
- The Advancement of Learning (Sir Francis Bacon)
- The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXI - Miscellaneous Writings (John Stuart Mill)
- The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 3 (Geoffrey Chaucer)
- The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, 8 vols. (Saint Bede)
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Galileo Galilei)
- Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 1 (Herbert Spencer)
- Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 2 (Herbert Spencer)
- Euclid’s Elements (Euclid)
- The Morals, vol. 3 (Plutarch)
- Novum Organum (Sir Francis Bacon)
- On the Nature of Things (Titus Lucretius Carus)
- The Origin of Species 2 vols. (Charles Darwin)
- The Origin of Species vol. 1 (Charles Darwin)
- The Origin of Species vol. 2 (Charles Darwin)
- Posterior Analytics (Aristotle)
- Principia mathematica (Latin ed.) (Sir Isaac Newton)
- The Principles of Psychology (1855) (Herbert Spencer)
- Kant’s Prolegomena and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. (Ernest Belfort Bax)
- The Spiritual Physick (Arthur John Arberry)
- The Works of Archimedes (Sir Thomas Little Heath)
- The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. II Letters and Misc. Writings 1735-1753 (John Bigelow)
- The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen (Hippocrates)