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Contents
- 1 General
- 2 Subject matter of Natural Philosophy informed by science of Physics
- 3 Philosophy of Physics (procedural)
- 4 Weights and measures
- 5 Descriptive and experimental mechanics
- 6 Atomic physics
- 7 Gravitation
- 8 Sound and acoustics
- 9 Heat and thermodynamics
- 10 Light and optics
- 11 Radiation physics
- 12 Electricity
- 13 Magnetism
- 14 Nuclear and particle physics
- 15 Geophysics and cosmic physics
- 16 Geomagnetism
- 17 Biography
- 18 Unsorted
- 19 See also
- 20 External links
General[edit]
- Physics
by Aristotle, translated by Wikisource
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638) by Galileo Galilei, translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio
- Discourse Concerning the Natation of Bodies (1612) by Galileo Galilei, translated by Thomas Salusbury
- The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729) by Isaac Newton
- The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1846) by Isaac Newton
- Derivation of the laws of motion and equilibrium from a metaphysical principle (1746) by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, translated by Wikisource
- Additamentum II: Concerning the motion of particles in a non-resistant medium, determined by a method of maxima and minima by Leonhard Euler, translated by Wikisource from Methodus inveniendi
- On the Conservation of Force (1862-3) by Hermann von Helmholtz, translated by Edmund Atkinson
- The Primary Concepts of Modern Physical Science I as it appeared in the October 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- The Primary Concepts of Modern Physical Science II as it appeared in the November 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- The Primary Concepts of Modern Physical Science III as it appeared in the December 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- The Primary Concepts of Modern Physical Science IV as it appeared in the January 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- Stallo's Concepts of Modern Physics as it appeared in the May 1882 Popular Science Monthly
Subject matter of Natural Philosophy informed by science of Physics[edit]
- The Measure of Time (1898) by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted
Philosophy of Physics (procedural)[edit]
- Novum Organum (1620) passim by Francis Bacon
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638) passim by Galileo Galilei, translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio
- The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1726) passim by Isaac Newton
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics/Second Part (1783) by Immanuel Kant, translated by Paul Carus
- Science and Hypothesis (1902) by Henri Poincaré, translated by William John Greenstreet
- Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics (1915) by Max Planck, translated by Albert P. Wills
- Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy (1914) by Bertrand Russell
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) by Albert Einstein
- The Meaning of Relativity (1922) by Albert Einstein
Weights and measures[edit]
- An Essay on Quantity by Thomas Reid, 1748.
- Dyne as it appears in The New Student's Reference Work
- The Metric System as it appears in The New Student's Reference Work
- Dynamometer as it appears in The New Student's Reference Work
- Lactometer as it appears in The New Student's Reference Work
- Metronome as it appears in The New Student's Reference Work
Descriptive and experimental mechanics[edit]
- The Ball-Paradox as it appeared in the April 1877 Popular Science Monthly
- The Constancy of Motion as it appeared in the December 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- Heat and Motion, and Political Economy as it appeared in the July 1877 Popular Science Monthly
- The Origins of Statics by Pierre Duhem as it appeared in the October 1903 Revue des Questions Scientifiques translated by ResidentScholar.
- On Governors (1868) by James Clerk Maxwell
Atomic physics[edit]
- The Constitution of Matter as it appeared in the September 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- The Theory of Molecules as it appeared in the January 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- “Atom” by James Clerk Maxwell in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1878.
- Are the Elements Elementary? as it appeared in the February 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- Molecular Magnitudes as it appeared in the October 1877 Popular Science Monthly
- Molecular Dynamics as it appeared in the January 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- The Molecular Theory as it appeared in the August 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- What Is a Molecule? as it appeared in the September 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Speculations on the Nature of Matter as it appeared in the April 1883 Popular Science Monthly
- The Relations of Physics of Electrons to Other Branches of Science (1904) by Paul Langevin
- Matter (1911) by Joseph John Thomson
Relativity[edit]
Quantum theory[edit]
- On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light (1905) by Albert Einstein
- Quantum noise at the nonlinear mapping of phase space (1997) by Dmitrii Kouznetsov and Daniel Rohrlich as it appeared in Оптика и Спектроскопия (Optics and Spectroscopy)
Gravitation[edit]
- The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729) by Isaac Newton
- The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1846) by Isaac Newton
- The Field Equations of Gravitation
- Time, Space, and Gravitation
Kinetic Theories of Gravitation[edit]
- The Le Sage Theory of Gravitation (1782/1898) by Georges-Louis Le Sage
- Notice de la Vie et des Ecrits de George Louis Le Sage (English) (1807) by John Playfair
- The Atomic Theory of Lucretius (1868) by Fleeming Jenkin
- On the Ultramundane Corpuscles of Le Sage (1872) by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- The Mathematical and Philosophical State of the Physical Sciences (1874) by Joseph Lovering
- “Atom” by James Clerk Maxwell in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1878.
- “Attraction” by James Clerk Maxwell in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1878.
- Kinetic Theories of Gravitation (1876) by William Bower Taylor
- On some Dynamical Conditions applicable to Le Sage's Theory of Gravitation (1877/1878) by Samuel Tolver Preston
- Le Sage's Theory of Gravitation (1878) by James Croll
- Mutual Action of Vortex Atoms and Ultramundane Corpuscles (1879) by George Forbes
- A Suggestion in regard to Crystallization, on the Hypothesis that Molecules are not infinitely Hard (1880) by Samuel Tolver Preston
- On Action at a Distance (Browne) (1881) by Walter Raleigh Browne
- On Action at a Distance (Preston) (1881) by Samuel Tolver Preston
- On the Importance of Experiments in relation to the Mechanical Theory of Gravitation (1881) by Samuel Tolver Preston
- Physical Theories of Gravitation (1895) by Thomas Proctor Hall
- Comparative Review of some Dynamical Theories of Gravitation (1895) by Samuel Tolver Preston
- Considerations on Gravitation (1900) by Hendrik Lorentz
- The Corpuscular Theories of Gravitation (1903) by J. W. Peck
- The Theory of Lesage (1908) by Henri Poincaré
- Matter (1911) by Joseph John Thomson
- Earlier Theories of Gravity (1913) by Hereward Carrington
Sound and acoustics[edit]
- On the Production of Sound by Light as it appeared in the October 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- Production of Sound by Radiant Energy II as it appeared in the June 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Production of Sound by Radiant Energy I as it appeared in the June 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Acoustics as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Echo as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
Heat and thermodynamics[edit]
- "Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat" by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron as it appeared in volume 1 of Taylor's Scientific Memoirs
- Action of Dark Radiations by John Tyndall as it appeared in the June 1872 Popular Science Monthly
- History of the Dynamical Theory of Heat I as it appeared in the December 1877 Popular Science Monthly
- History of the Dynamical Theory of Heat II as it appeared in the January 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- Possible Efficiency of Heat-Engines as it appeared in the October 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- Examination of Thermometers at the Yale Observatory as it appeared in the August 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Action of Radiant Heat on Gaseous Matter as it appeared in the May 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Specific Heat as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- The Scientific Papers of Josiah Willard Gibbs, Volume I (Thermodynamics) (1906) by Josiah Willard Gibbs.
Light and optics[edit]
- Opticks (2nd Ed) (1704) by Isaac Newton
- Opticks (4th Ed) (1730) by Isaac Newton
- Accord between different laws of Nature that seemed incompatible (1744) by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, translated by Wikisource
- Visual Images in Darkness as it appeared in the October 1872 Popular Science Monthly
- Modern Optics and Painting I as it appeared in the February 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- Modern Optics and Painting II as it appeared in the March 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- Images and Shadows as it appeared in the April 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- The Crooked Courses of Light as it appeared in the May 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- Hints on the Stereoscope as it appeared in the July 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- On the Correctness of Photographs as it appeared in the April 1875 Popular Science Monthly
- The Microscope and its Misinterpretations as it appeared in the June 1875 Popular Science Monthly
- The Cause of the Light of Flames as it appeared in the October 1875 Popular Science Monthly
- The Mechanical Action of Light as it appeared in the October 1875 Popular Science Monthly
- The Nature of Fluorescence as it appeared in the February 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- The Mechanical Action of Light as it appeared in the July 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- The Constants of Color as it appeared in the October 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- Simple Experiments in Optics as it appeared in the October 1877 Popular Science Monthly
- The Contrast of Colors as it appeared in the November 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- The Most Powerful Telescope in Existence as it appeared in the January 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors I as it appeared in the June 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors II as it appeared in the July 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- Optical Illusions of Motion as it appeared in the February 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- The Stereoscope: Its History I as it appeared in the May 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- The Stereoscope: Its Theory II as it appeared in the June 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- Lengthening the Visible Spectrum as it appeared in the May 1883 Popular Science Monthly
- The Colors of Flowers as it appeared in the October 1883 Popular Science Monthly
- Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light (1878) by Albert Abraham Michelson
- Interference Phenomena in a new form of Refractometer (1882) by Albert Abraham Michelson
- On Rainbows as it appeared in the March 1884 Popular Science Monthly
- Influence of Motion of the Medium on the Velocity of Light (1886) by Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward W. Morley
- On a method for making the wave length of sodium light the actual and practical standard of length (1888) by Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward W. Morley
- Effect of Reflection from a Moving Mirror on the Velocity of Light (1913) by Albert Abraham Michelson
- A proof of the constancy of the velocity of light (1913) by Willem de Sitter
- On the constancy of the velocity of light (1913) by Willem de Sitter
- Experimental Demonstration of the Constancy of Velocity of the Light reflected from a Moving Mirror (1918) by Quirino Majorana
- Experimental Demonstration of the Constancy of Velocity of the Light emitted by a Moving Source (1919) by Quirino Majorana
- Solar Microscope as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Spectacles as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Spectrum as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Spectrum Analysis as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Telescope as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
Aether[edit]
- Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition/Ether (1875)
- The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether (1881)
- On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether (1887)
- The Ether and the Earth's Atmosphere (1889)
- The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Aether (1892)
- Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium III (1897)
- The relative Motion of the Earth and the Ether (1897)
- Aether and Matter (1900)
- Does Motion through the Aether cause Double Refraction? (1902)
- The Forces Acting on a Charged Condenser moving through Space (1903)
- Relative Motion of Earth and Aether (1904)
- Absence of Effects of Motion through the Aether (1904)
- Letter to Lord Kelvin (1904)
- The Ether and moving Matter (1904)
- On Double Refraction in Matter moving through the Aether (1904)
- Negative Results of Second and Third Order Tests of the Aether Drift (1905)
- On the Theory of Experiments to detect Aberrations of the Second Degree (1905)
- Report of an experiment to detect the Fitzgerald-Lorentz Effect (1905)
- Final Report on Ether-drift Experiments (1907)
- The Structure of the Æther (1907)
- On the Proof of the Reality of the Luminiferous Aether (1913)
- Ether and the Theory of Relativity (1920)
- The Demonstration of the Luminiferous Aether
- Ether as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
Spectroscopy[edit]
- Evolution and the Spectroscope as it appeared in the January 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- A Home-Made Spectroscope as it appeared in the October 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- The Teachings of Modern Spectroscopy as it appeared in the August 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Spectroscopy as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
Radiation physics[edit]
- On Radiant Matter I as it appeared in the November 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- On Radiant Matter II as it appeared in the December 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- On Radiation as it appeared in the August 1883 Popular Science Monthly
Electricity[edit]
- Electricity and Life as it appeared in the March 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- Lessons in Electricity III as it appeared in the June 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- Lessons in Electricity IV as it appeared in the July 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- The Electric Light as it appeared in the March 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- The Modern Development of Faraday's Conception of Electricity as it appeared in the June 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- The Electric Storage of Energy as it appeared in the August 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses (1913) by Joseph John Thomson
- Ampère as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Commutator as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Dynamo-Electric Machine as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
Electromagnetic theory[edit]
- On Physical Lines of Force (1861) by James Clerk Maxwell
- A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field (1865) by James Clerk Maxwell
- Magneto-Electric Illumination as it appeared in the September 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873) by James Clerk Maxwell
- On the Electric and Magnetic Effects produced by the Motion of Electrified Bodies (1881) by Joseph John Thomson
- Electromagnetic waves, the propagation of potential, and the electromagnetic effects of a moving charge (1888) by Oliver Heaviside
- On the Electromagnetic Effects due to the Motion of Electrification through a Dielectric (1889) by Oliver Heaviside
- Attempt of a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies (1895) by Hendrik Lorentz
- Notes on the Electro-magnetic Theory of Moving Charges (1896) by William Blair Morton
- On the Steady Motion of an Electrified Ellipsoid (1897) by George Frederick Charles Searle
- On a Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium, Part 3, Relations with material media (1897) by Joseph Larmor
- Simplified Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Systems (1899) by Hendrik Lorentz
- Aether and Matter (1900) by Joseph Larmor
- Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity smaller than that of light (1904) by Hendrik Lorentz
Radio waves[edit]
Electric discharge[edit]
Plasma physics[edit]
Magnetism[edit]
- On the Magnet (1900) by William Gilbert
- On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays by Mary Fairfax Somerville in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1826)
Nuclear and particle physics[edit]
Atomic energy[edit]
Radioactivity[edit]
- The Radiometer as it appeared in the November 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- Radio-active substances (1904) by Marie Skłodowska Curie, Thesis presented to the Faculte des Sciences de Paris, Reprinted from the Chemical News. Second edition. (transcription project)
- The Discovery of Radium (1921) by Marie Skłodowska Curie
Radioactive substances[edit]
Elementary particle physics[edit]
Geophysics and cosmic physics[edit]
- The Recent Progress of Solar Physics as it appeared in the November 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- A New Theory of the Sun as it appeared in the June 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- Note relating to M. Foucault's new mechanical proof of the Rotation of the Earth
Geomagnetism[edit]
Biography[edit]
- Amagat, Emile Hilaire as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Sketch of Heinrich Hertz as it appeared in the July 1894 Popular Science Monthly
Unsorted[edit]
- The Dissipation of Energy as it appeared in the April 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- The Radical Fallacy of Materialism as it appeared in the July 1878 Popular Science Monthly
- Water as Fuel as it appeared in the March 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- The Availability of Energy as it appeared in the June 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- How the Earth Is Weighed as it appeared in the October 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Great Fires and Rain-Storms as it appeared in the December 1872 Popular Science Monthly
- Light and Life as it appeared in the January 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- Velocity of the Will as it appeared in the January 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- Studies of Vortex-Rings as it appeared in the December 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- A Glimpse Through the Corridors of Time as it appeared in the February 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- A Little Matter as it appeared in the February 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- What Is Transcendental Physics? as it appeared in the January 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- Sound and Radiant Heat as it appeared in the March 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- The Available Energy of Nature as it appeared in the November 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- Speculative Science as it appeared in the June 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- On the Diffusion of Odors as it appeared in the May 1882 Popular Science Monthly
- Machines Driven by Solar Rays as it appeared in the July 1883 Popular Science Monthly
- The Aim of Thermo-Chemical Investigations as it appeared in the October 1883 Popular Science Monthly
- Professor Dvorak's Sound-Mills as it appeared in the June 1884 Popular Science Monthly
- Du Motay's Process of Ice-Making as it appeared in the October 1884 Popular Science Monthly
- Sun-Kinks as it appeared in the September 1884 Popular Science Monthly
- Wave-Action in Nature as it appeared in the May 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- Sympathetic Vibrations in Machinery as it appeared in the October 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- Correlation of Vital with Chemical and Physical Forces as it appeared in the December 1873 Popular Science Monthly
- The Dissipation of Energy as it appeared in the February 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- Quicker Than Lightning as it appeared in the January 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- The Physics of Ice as it appeared in the August 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- Action of Sunlight on Glass as it appeared in the May 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- The Crooked Courses of Light as it appeared in the May 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- Address Before the American Association II as it appeared in the January 1875 Popular Science Monthly
- Crystalline and Molecular Forces as it appeared in the January 1875Popular Science Monthly
- The Apotheosis of Steam as it appeared in the August 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- Soap-Bubbles as it appeared in the September 1876 Popular Science Monthly
- Dynamics as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Poles as it appeared in The New Student's Reference Work
- Scientific Papers of Josiah Willard Gibbs, Volume 2
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Subclass QC on Project Gutenberg
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