Modern Editions & Facsimiles (Individual Authors)
On this page you will find examples of modern editions of works by individual authors from Greek antiquity through the 20th century.
For tips on searching for the works of scientists, see Find Scientists' Writings
Medieval Authors
Listed below is a sampling of some of the modern editions or facsimiles of the works of ancient and medieval authors.
Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica by
Publication Date: 1998John Buridan Quaestiones super libros de generatione et corruptione Aristotelis by
Publication Date: 2010- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Memoir on Astronomy = al-tadhkira fī ʻilm al-hayʼa byPublication Date: 1993
The Trotula by
Publication Date: 2001
Early Modern Authors
Listed below is a sampling of some of the modern editions or facsimiles of the works of early modern authors.
The Ambonese Herbal by
Publication Date: 2011- De humani corporis fabrica libri septemPublication Date: 1964
Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics by
Publication Date: 2011- Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius: A Facsimile Edition byPublication Date: 2004A facsimile reprint of the edition published: Venetiis : Apud Thomas Baglionum, 1610. Based on a first edition original in the University of Oklahoma Libraries, History of Science Collections.
Issued in a fall-down-back box with: A companion to the Byzantium Press facsimile edition of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius / with an introduction by Sean E. Richards ... ; an historical essay by Peter Barker ; and a page-by-page translation, based on the version of Edward Stafford Carlos ; edited and corrected by Peter Barker. - Natural Magick - Giambattista della PortaPublication Date: 1957
Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy - Margaret Cavendish by
Publication Date: 2001- Ophthalmodouleia - George Bartisch byPublication Date: 1996
Selections from Kepler's Astronomia Nova by
Publication Date: 2004Selections From Newton's Principia by
Publication Date: 2004Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis by
Publication Date: 2007- The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588)Publication Date: 1976
Galileo (The Trial)
Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial by
Publication Date: 2008The Essential Galileo by
Publication Date: 2008The Galileo affair: a documentary history by
Publication Date: 1989Trial of Galileo by
Publication Date: 2014
Series
Listed below are some notable publishers' series that present facsimiles and/or critical editions of scientific works.
Dutch Classics in the History of Science (see publisher's website for list of volumes included in series)
The Loeb Classical Library (See also Loeb Classical Library Books Available Online)
Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Newton
The Correspondence of Isaac Newton by
Publication Date: 2008Newton's Philosophy of Nature by
Publication Date: 1953 editionThe Principia by
Publication Date: 2010Selections From Newton's Principia by
Publication Date: 2004
Vesalius
- De humani corporis fabrica Basel, 1543 byIncludes a digitized facsimile of the 1543 Basel edition of Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica from the copy in the Warnock Library and a commentary by Katharine Park
- Three Vesalian essays byPublication Date: 1952
18th & 19th Century Authors
Listed below is a sampling of some of the modern editions or facsimiles of the works of authors from the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Collected Works of Count Rumford byPublication Date: 1968-1970
- Collected Works of Mary Somerville byPublication Date: 2004
- The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals byPublication Date: 1979
Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity: The First Series by
Publication Date: 2004Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes by
Publication Date: 1997- Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and llustrations byPublication Date: 1972
- Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden byPublication Date: 1960
20th Century Authors
Listed below is a sampling of some of the modern editions or facsimiles of the works of authors from the 20th century.
- An Anthropologist at Work; Writings of Ruth BenedictPublication Date: 1959
Einstein's Annalen Papers - The Complete Collection, 1901-1922 by
Publication Date: 2005- Essential Works byPublication Date: 1966
- Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light byPublication Date: 1964"This book is a reproduction of Michelson's handwritten report on his experiments of 1878."
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection - R.A. Fisher by
Publication Date: 1999Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers by
Publication Date: 2001