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.
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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 byPublication Date: 1998
- John Buridan Quaestiones super libros de generatione et corruptione Aristotelis byPublication Date: 2010
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Memoir on Astronomy = al-tadhkira fī ʻilm al-hayʼa byPublication Date: 1993
- The Trotula byPublication 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 byPublication Date: 2011
- De humani corporis fabrica libri septemPublication Date: 1964
- Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics byPublication 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 byPublication Date: 2001
- Ophthalmodouleia - George Bartisch byPublication Date: 1996
- Selections from Kepler's Astronomia Nova byPublication Date: 2004
- Selections From Newton's Principia byPublication Date: 2004
- Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis byPublication Date: 2007
- The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588)Publication Date: 1976
Galileo (The Trial)
- Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial byPublication Date: 2008
- The Essential Galileo byPublication Date: 2008
- The Galileo affair: a documentary history byPublication Date: 1989
- Trial of Galileo byPublication 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 byPublication Date: 2008
- Newton's Philosophy of Nature byPublication Date: 1953 edition
- The Principia byPublication Date: 2010
- Selections From Newton's Principia byPublication 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 byPublication Date: 2004
- Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes byPublication 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 byPublication 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 byPublication Date: 1999
- Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers byPublication Date: 2001