Physics
The study of nature and its bodies, motions and forces.
Works to read
- On the Motion and Gait of Animals by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
- The Nature of the Physical World by Arthur Eddington, 1928
- Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle, 4th century BCE · Great Books
- Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle, c. 350-330 BC · Great Books
- On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius, c. 55 BCE · Great Books
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis) by William Harvey, 1628 · Great Books
- Physics and Philosophy by Werner Heisenberg, 1958 · Great Books
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days) by Galileo Galilei, 1638 · Great Books
- Principia by Isaac Newton, 1687 · Great Books
- The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant, 1790 · Great Books
- Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead, 1925 · Great Books
- Natural History: A Selection by Pliny the Elder, c. 77 CE
Passages
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
— Ernst Mach, Popular Scientific Lectures
that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry
— Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
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