List of publications in physics
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This is a list of publications in physics, organized by type.
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Textbooks
Books and treatises before 1900
- Aristotle, Physics (4th century BC)
- Aristotle, On the Heavens (4th century BC)
- Ptolemy, Almagest (2nd century AD)
- Ibn al-Haytham, Book of Optics (circa 1015)
- Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Alonso de la Vera Cruz, Physica speculatio (1557)
- Simon Stevin, De Beghinselen Der Weeghconst (1586)
- Galileo Galilei, De motu antiquiora (circa 1590)
- Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)
- William Gilbert, De Magnete (1600)
- Galileo Galilei, Le Mecaniche (circa 1600)
- Johannes Kepler, Astronomia nova (1609)
- Johannes Kepler, Harmonice Mundi (1619)
- Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
- Galileo Galilei, Two New Sciences (1638)
- René Descartes. Principles of Philosophy (1644)
- Christiaan Huygens, Horologium Oscillatorium (1673)
- Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light (1690)
- Isaac Newton, Opticks (1704)
- Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (1738)
- Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert, Photometria (1760)
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Mécanique analytique (1788)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace, Traité de mécanique céleste (1798)
- Sadi Carnot, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824)
- William Kingdon Clifford, Elements of Dynamic (1878)
- James Clerk Maxwell, An Elementary Treatise on Electricity (1881)