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Under construction -- version 0.8 (8-15-99).

I'm planning on having a list of books and reviews that reflect my current and future studies on Natural Philosophy.

Bill Decker's Natural Philosophy Bookshelf

History of Physics

Mechanics

History of Mechanics, by Rene Dugas.

Essays in the History of Mechanics, by Clifford Truesdell. Published by Springer-Verlag, 1968

Great Scientists of Old as Heretics in "The Scientific Method", by Clifford Truesdell. Published by University Press of Virginia, 1987.

The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages, by Marshall Clagett. Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1959.

The Medieval Science of Weights, edited ad translated by E. Moody and M. Clagett. Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1960.

Archimedes in the Middle Ages, edited by M. Clagett. Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1964

Electricity and Magnetism

A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, by E. T. Whittaker. Published by Dover, 1989.

Electromagnetic Theory, a Critical Examination of Fundamentals, by Alfred O'Rahilly. Published by Dover, 1965

Thermodynamics

The tragicomical history of thermodynamics, 1822-1854, by C. Truesdell. Published by Springer-Verlag, 1980.

General Natural Philosophy

From Euclid to Eddington, a study of conceptions of the external world, by E. T. Whittaker.

The journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences.

Classics of Natural Philosophy

Mechanics

Dialogues concerning two new sciences, by Galileo Galilei.

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, by Isaac Newton.

Matter and Motion, by James Clerk Maxwell.

Treatise on Natural Philosophy, by Kelvin and Tait.

Electricity and Magnetism

Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light, by Isaac Newton.

A treatise on electricity and magnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell.

Electromagnetic Theory, by Oliver Heaviside.

Thermodynamics

The mechanical theory of heat, by Rudolf Clausius.

Reflections on the motive power of heat, by Sadi Carnot.

The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, Vol. 1.

General Natural Philosophy

Physics, by Aristotle

Letters of Euler on different subjects in natural philosophy, addressed to a German princess

Modern, Technical Works of Natural Philosophy

Mechanics

The Classical Field Theories, by C. Truesdell and R. Toupin. In Handbuch der Physik, Bd. III/1. Published by Springer-Verlag.

Mathematical Principles of Classical Fluid Mechanics, by James Serrin. In Handbuch der Physik, Bd. VIII/1. Published by Springer-Verlag.

Bulletin of the National Research Council Number 84, Report of the Committee on Hydrodynamics, by Dryden, Murnaghan and Bateman (mostly Bateman). 1931.

The Nonlinear Field Theories of Mechanics, by C. Truesdell and W. Noll. Published by Springer-Verlag.

A first course in rational continuum mechanics, by C. Truesdell. Published by Academic Press, 1991.

A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies : with an introduction to the problem of three bodies, by E. T. Whittaker. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Statics, by Horace Lamb. Cambridge University Press, 1914.

Dynamics, by Horace Lamb. Cambridge University Press, 1914.

Hydrodynamics, by Horace Lamb. Cambridge University Press, 1914.

Electricity and Magnetism

Thermodynamics

The concepts and logic of classical thermodynamics as a theory of heat engines, rigorously constructed upon the foundation laid by S. Carnot and F. Reech, by C. Truesdell and S. Baratha.

New Perspectives in Thermodynamics,edited by James Serrin. Published by Springer-Verlag.

Rational Thermodynamics, second edition by Clifford Truesdell and others. Published by Springer-Verlag.

General Natural Philosophy

Six lectures on modern natural philosophy, by C. Truesdell.

Just about all of the books in the Springer-Verlag Tracts in Natural Philosophy Series.

The journal Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.