Treatise on Suppuration (Traité de la suppuration) – François Quesnay

Louis Agassiz surveys and classifies the fishes of North America's Pacific slope, naming species and mapping their distribution.

Agassiz's preface to his fossil fish monograph argues the fossil record overturns zoology's chain of being and rewrites…

Peano's Formulario Mathematico is a symbolic encyclopedia of mathematics written in latino sine flexione, a grammarless Latin built…

Raymond Aron argues that Western intellectuals turned Marxism into a secular religion, replacing the search for truth with…

Fontenelle treats mathematical infinity as a domain of relative, comparable magnitudes rather than a single absolute.

Fontenelle's commemorative eulogy honors botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, tracing his career, his classification method, and his Levant…

Carl Schmitt argues that romanticism is not a political position but a metaphysical attitude that dissolves the decision…

Agricola's Latin treatise surveys earths, salts, gems, and metals, classifying minerals by composition, properties, and use in sixteenth-century…

Rivista di Matematica was Giuseppe Peano's Turin journal for symbolic logic, axiomatics, and the foundations of mathematics.

Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays is a Song-dynasty biji miscellany of observations, technical notes, and scholarly reflections across…

Raymond Aron's study explains Clausewitz's theory of war as a political instrument and defends its philosophical depth against…

Glossarium is Carl Schmitt's postwar notebook (1947–1958), recording his political theology, self-interpretation, and judgments on history.