Physics & Astronomy

The classics of physics and astronomy — Newton’s Opticks, Galileo’s first telescopic reports, Einstein in his own words, Faraday, Maxwell and the great popularisers of the heavens. Each book a clean, beautifully formatted EPUB, free to download.

• A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Agnes M. Clerke
• A Short History of Astronomy Arthur Berry
• A-B-C of Electricity Wm. H. Meadowcroft
• An Introduction to the History of Science Walter Libby
• Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies J. Ellard Gore
• Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion
• Astronomy with an Opera-glass Garrett Putman Serviss
• Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men F. Arago
• Common Science Carleton Washburne
• Curiosities of the Sky Garrett Putman Serviss
• Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Robert P. Multhauf and Victor F. Lenzen
• Die Welträtsel Ernst Haeckel
• Discourse on Bodies in Water Galileo Galilei
• Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers Silvio A. Bedini
• Easy Lessons in Einstein Edwin E. Slosson
• Einstein and the Universe Charles Nordmann
• Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation J. Malcolm Bird
• Einstein, the Searcher Alexander Moszkowski
• Endless Amusement Unknown
• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours Robert Boyle
• Experiments and Observations on Electricity Benjamin Franklin
• Experiments with Alternate Currents Nikola Tesla
• Famous Men of Science Sarah Knowles Bolton
• Faraday as a Discoverer John Tyndall
• Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia Karl von Gebler
• General Science Bertha May Clark
• Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think Edmund Callis Berkeley
• History of the Inductive Sciences William Whewell
• How It Works Archibald Williams
• James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics Richard Glazebrook
• Lectures on Stellar Statistics C. V. L. Charlier
• Leonardo da Vinci, Pathfinder of Science Henry S. Gillette
• Letters on Astronomy Denison Olmsted
• Makers of Electricity James J. Walsh and Brother Potamian
• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Maria Mitchell
• Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain William Walker
• Michael Faraday J. H. Gladstone
• Michael Faraday, His Life and Work Silvanus P. Thompson
• Michael Faraday, Man of Science Walter Jerrold
• Newton’s PrincipiaIsaac Newton
• Novum Organum Francis Bacon
• On the Magnet William Gilbert
• Opticks Isaac Newton
• Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville
• Physics Willis E. Tower, Charles H. Smith, Charles M. Turton, and Thomas D. Cope
• Pierre Curie Marie Curie
• Popular Scientific Lectures Ernst Mach
• Popular Scientific Recreations Gaston Tissandier
• Practical Hand Book of Gas, Oil and Steam Engines John B. Rathbun
• Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy John F. W. Herschel
• Pyrometry Charles R. Darling
• Reflections on the Decline of Science in England Charles Babbage
• Relativity: The Special and General Theory Albert Einstein
• Rollo’s Experiments Jacob Abbott
• Side-Lights on Astronomy Simon Newcomb
• Sidelights on Relativity Albert Einstein
• Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works Edward S. Holden
• Six Lectures on Light John Tyndall
• Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them C. V. Boys
• The A B C of Relativity Bertrand Russell
• The Astronomy of Milton’s Paradise Lost Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
• The Astronomy of the Bible E. Walter Maunder
• The Boy’s Book of New Inventions Harry E. Maule
• The Concept of Nature Alfred North Whitehead
• The Kaleidoscope: Its History, Theory and Construction David Brewster
• The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet active 13th century de Maricourt Pierre
• The Life of Galileo Galilei John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
• The Life of Sir Isaac Newton David Brewster
• The New Physics and Its Evolution Lucien Poincaré
• The Poetry of Science Robert Hunt
• The Practical Astronomer Thomas Dick
• The Principles of Science William Stanley Jevons
• The Progress of the Century Unknown
• The Reason Why Robert Kemp Philp
• The Romance of Modern Invention Archibald Williams
• The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler
• The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated Dionysius Lardner
• The Story of Eclipses George F. Chambers
• The Story of Great Inventions Elmer Ellsworth Burns
• The Telescope Louis Bell
• The Unseen World, and Other Essays John Fiske
• Treatise on Light Christiaan Huygens
• Tube, Train, Tram, and Car Arthur H. Beavan
• Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature Francis Bacon
• Woman in Science J. A. Zahm
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents Fulgence Marion