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Albert Einstein · English
Einstein’s concise lecture-based explanation of special and general relativity.
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Albert Einstein · English
Einstein’s concise lecture-based explanation of special and general relativity.

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Ernest Renan · French
Un essai majeur d’Ernest Renan sur la science, la connaissance, la religion et le progrès intellectuel.

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Anonymous · Spanish
Una edición española del clásico médico chino sobre cuerpo, equilibrio, diagnóstico y cosmología.

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Thomas Browne · English
Pseudodoxia Epidemica is a public-domain classic of early modern science and skepticism.

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Max Weber · German
Die Stadt ist ein gemeinfreier Klassiker über Soziologie der Stadt, Bürgertum und Herrschaft.

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Francesco Redi · Italian
Testi scientifici classici di Redi su osservazione, esperimento, natura, generazione spontanea e metodo empirico.

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Georg Simmel · German
Ein grundlegendes Werk der Soziologie über Vergesellschaftung, Wechselwirkung, Gruppen, Konflikt und moderne Formen.

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John Muir · English
John Muir’s luminous Sierra journal, joining field observation, wilderness travel, and natural history.

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John Lubbock · English
A public-domain classic on archaeology, prehistory, stone tools, human origins, and early material culture.

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Robert Chambers · English
A controversial Victorian science classic on cosmic history, life, development, geology, and pre-Darwinian evolution.

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Jules Michelet · French
Un grand texte français sur l’océan, la nature, les espèces marines et l’imaginaire scientifique.

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Alfred Russel Wallace · English
A landmark natural-history journey through islands, species, geography, evolution, and exploration.

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Gilbert White · English
A classic of close observation, natural history, birds, seasons, village life, and ecological attention.

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Galileo Galilei · Italian
Il celebre testo di Galileo sul metodo scientifico, la natura, l’osservazione e il linguaggio matematico.

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H. G. Wells · English
A concise Wells lecture on prediction, science, social change, and humanity’s responsibility toward the future.

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Alexander von Humboldt · German
Ein monumentaler deutscher Wissenschaftsklassiker über Natur, Erde, Astronomie, Geographie und die Einheit der Welt.

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Maurice Maeterlinck · French
Un classique français de la nature qui mêle observation des abeilles, biologie, philosophie et prose littéraire.

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Karl Pearson · English
A foundational philosophy-of-science work on method, causation, measurement, and scientific knowledge.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · German
Goethes großes Werk über Farbe, Wahrnehmung, Naturbeobachtung, Kunst und Wissenschaft.

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D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson · English
A landmark study connecting biology, mathematics, morphology, and the visible forms of living organisms.

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Albert Einstein · German
Einsteins klassische Einführung in spezielle und allgemeine Relativität für ein breites Publikum.

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Max Weber · German
Webers Grundtext über Wissenschaft, Universität, Berufung, Methode und moderne Entzauberung.

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Michael Faraday · English
Faraday’s famous lectures explain flame, combustion, air, water, carbon, and scientific observation through a candle.

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Xu Guangqi · Chinese
徐光启综合农学、水利、作物、蚕桑、荒政与农业治理,是中国古代科技、农业实践和民生制度的重要经典。