Lucretius,~48bc: On the Nature of Things
William Godwin,~1831: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries
Edgar A. Poe,~1848: Eureka: An Essay On The Material And Spiritual Universe
Friedrich Nietzsche,~1885: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Lewis Carroll,~1896: Elementary Symbolic Logic
Henri Bergson,~1896: Matter and Memory
Benedetto Croce,~1907: Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Franz Boas,~1911, 1938: The Mind of Primitive Man
Douglas Adams,~1992: Mostly Harmless