Early Mathematics and Physics

The 39 books on this CD include works by such physicists as Einstein, Maxwell, Faraday, Lorentz and Michelson; and 19th century books on algebra, number theory, and logic.

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Table of Contents

Physics (20 books)

• Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas Willson
• The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1791-1867), 1908
• Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended by Sir Isaac Newton [the physicist] 1728
• The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H.A. Lorentz
• Experimental Determination of the Speed of Light by Albert Michelson, 1880
• Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday
• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colors by Robert Boyle, 1664
• Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Nikola Tesla, 1892
• Faraday As A Discoverer, by John Tyndall
• Five of Maxwell's Papers by James Clerk Maxwell
• Flatland [fiction], (1884) by  Edwin Abbott (1838-1926)
• The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincare, 1909
• Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Sir Isaac Newton [the physicist] 1733
• On a Dynamical Top for Exhibiting the Phenomena of the Motion of a System of Invariable Form About a Fixed Point, with Some Suggestions as to the Earth's Motion  by James Clerk Maxwell (html file) ILLUSTRATED
• Physics and Politics or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of 'Natural Selection' and 'Inheritance' to Political Society by Walter Bagehot
• Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein, translated by Robert W. Lawson, 1920 (html file) ILLUSTRATED
• Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein, 1920 (html file) ILLUSTRATED
• Six Lectures on Light, 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
• The Story of Electricity by John Munro
• Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens, 1690

Mathematics (15 books)

• The Algebra of Logic by Louis Couturat, translated by Lydia Gillingham Robinson (.pdf file) ILLUSTRATED
• Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Dudeney, 1917
• A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, by Thomas Hariot [the mathematician], 1590
• Charles Fourier (in German) by A. Bebel, 1890
• Diophantine Analysis by Robert Carmichael, pdf file, ILLUSTRATED
• Elements of Euclid, First Six Books, edited by John Case, pdf file, ILLUSTRATED
• Essays on the Theory of Numbers by Richard Dedekind, pdf file, ILLUSTRATED
• A First Book in Algebra by Wallace Boyden, 1895, pdf file, ILLUSTRATED
• The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
• The History of Modern Mathematics by David Eugene Smith, 1906, pdf file ILLUSTRATED
• Instructions on Using a Slide Rule
• The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development by Levi Conant, 1896
• Philosophy and Fun of Algebra by Mary Everest Boole, 1891, pdf file ILLUSTRATED
• A Primer of Quaternions by Arthur S. Hathaway, 1896
• The Square of Sevens: an Authoritative System of Cartomancy by E. Irenaeus Stavenson
• Ten British Mathematicians of the 19th Century by Alexander Macfarlane, 1916, pdf file ILLUSTRATED
• The Theory of Numbers by Robert D. Carmichael, 1914, pdf file ILLUSTRATED
• Thomas Hariot (1560-621) the Mathematician, the Philosopher, and the Scholar by Henry Stevens of Vermont (1819-1886)
• Treatise on the Theory of Invariants by Oliver E. Gleen, pdf file ILLUSTRATED