Up to Snuff #32: Book List: Ancient Writings with Names of Historical Universities
By Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
Physics 1-8 Aristotle
On Generation & Perishing, Aristotle
De Caelo (On the Heavens), Aristotle
Meteorology, Aristotle
De Generation et Corruptine, Aristotle
On coming to be and passing away, Aristotle
Ackrill, JL Change and Aristotle’s Theological Argument
Bodnar, Istvan, Movers and Elemental Motions in Aristotle
Bodnar, Istvan, Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy
Starry Messenger, Galileo
Two New Sciences (Physics) Galileo
De Motu Cordis (On the Motion of the Heart)
Le Monde (The World) Descartes
Micrographia, Hooke
Dialog on the Two Chief World Systems (Aristotle, Copernicus)
Principia Philosophiae Naturelis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) Isaac Newton
Dr Rerum Natura ( On the Nature of Things) Lucretius
Elements of Geometry, Euclid
Almagest, By Claudius Ptolemy
On the Sacred Disease (Epilepsy)
On the Nature of Man, Hippocrates
Aphorisms, Hippocratic Works
Physicists, Aristotle
Scala Natural, Aristotle
Corpus Aphorisms, Aristotle
Galen
Meditations, Emperor Marcus Aurelius
On the Use of the Parts, Galen
Al-Jabr, Arab Mathematician, Algebra Book
Cannon of Medicine, Avicenna
House of Wisdom (Bagdad)
Plato’s Academy, Athens
University of Bologna
Padua
Montpellier
Cologne
Oxford
Cambridge
(Theology, Law, Medicine, Arts, Science)
Paraclesus, Anatomy & Astronomy
Versalius Anatomical Illustrations of Human Body, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” on the structure of the human body
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, (Revolution of the heavenly bodies), Copernicus
The Origin of Continents and Oceans, By Alfred Wegener
Thesaurus Geographicus, Abraham Ortelius
Of Dignity and The Advancement of Learning, Bacon
Novem Organum, Aristotle
Discourse on the Method, Descartes
Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemic & Copernican, Galileo
Two New Sciences, Galileo
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, By Sir Isaac Newton
References
Gower, B. (1996). Scientific Method : A Historical and Philosophical Introduction
Bynum, William, A Little History of Science, Yale University Press, 2012
Bodnar, Istvan, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), .