Natural History and Illustrations of the Bird Genera (Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Vögel-Gattungen) – Georges Cuvier

Carl Schmitt's State, Movement, People theorizes the National Socialist regime as a unity of state, party movement, and…

Fontenelle's dialogues introduce a witty Marquise to Copernican astronomy and the idea that Earth is one of many…

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

Carnap argues that all sciences form one system because their statements can be expressed in the universal language…

Agassiz's systematic treatise classifying fossil fishes into four orders by scale structure, from placoid to cycloid.

Louis Agassiz defends the Smithsonian's Secretary Joseph Henry against critics who accused the Institution of betraying its founder's…

Beccaria's treatise argues that punishment is justified only by necessity, measuring the penal system against reason and the…

Carnap's early dissertation distinguishes three meanings of space to reconcile geometry, physics, and philosophy.

Aphra Behn's translation of Fontenelle's witty dialogues making Copernican astronomy and the plurality of worlds accessible to lay…

Essays by Raymond Aron on historical knowledge and political analysis, edited and introduced by Miriam Bernheim Conant.

Agricola's sixteenth-century Latin treatise on mining and metallurgy defends mining as an ancient, honorable art across twelve illustrated…

Fechner argues that plants possess a genuine, diffuse soul-life, extending inwardness beyond humans and animals to the whole…