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.

• Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion
• Opticks Isaac Newton
• Novum Organum Francis Bacon
• The Astronomy of Milton’s Paradise Lost Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
• Relativity: The Special and General Theory Albert Einstein
• Newton’s PrincipiaIsaac Newton
• Rollo’s Experiments Jacob Abbott
• The Principles of Science William Stanley Jevons
• A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Agnes M. Clerke
• How It Works Archibald Williams
• Pierre Curie Marie Curie
• Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think Edmund Callis Berkeley
• The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler
• Popular Scientific Recreations Gaston Tissandier
• Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation J. Malcolm Bird
• The Concept of Nature Alfred North Whitehead
• Fragments of Science John Tyndall
• Experiments with Alternate Currents Nikola Tesla
• The Romance of Modern Invention Archibald Williams
• The Life of Sir Isaac Newton David Brewster
• The Astronomy of the Bible E. Walter Maunder
• The Boy’s Book of New Inventions Harry E. Maule
• On the Magnet William Gilbert
• Treatise on Light Christiaan Huygens
• The Story of Great Inventions Elmer Ellsworth Burns
• The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory Dorothy Stimson
• Physics Willis E. Tower, Charles H. Smith, Charles M. Turton, and Thomas D. Cope
• History of the Inductive Sciences William Whewell
• Makers of Electricity James J. Walsh and Brother Potamian
• The Progress of the Century Unknown
• Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies J. Ellard Gore
• The Fourth Dimension Charles Howard Hinton
• The A B C of Relativity Bertrand Russell
• Pyrometry Charles R. Darling
• Leonardo da Vinci, Pathfinder of Science Henry S. Gillette
• The Story of Eclipses George F. Chambers
• Practical Hand Book of Gas, Oil and Steam Engines John B. Rathbun
• Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper
• An Introduction to the History of Science Walter Libby
• Sound John Tyndall
• Einstein, the Searcher Alexander Moszkowski
• Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles James Ferguson
• Woman in Science J. A. Zahm
• Michael Faraday, His Life and Work Silvanus P. Thompson
• The Life of Galileo Galilei John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
• Letters on Astronomy Denison Olmsted
• Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature Francis Bacon
• The Reason Why Robert Kemp Philp
• Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge
• Radio-Activity Ernest Rutherford
• A Short History of Astronomy Arthur Berry
• Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville
• Famous Men of Science Sarah Knowles Bolton
• Tube, Train, Tram, and Car Arthur H. Beavan
• Reflections on the Decline of Science in England Charles Babbage
• Sidelights on Relativity Albert Einstein
• Michael Faraday J. H. Gladstone
• Curiosities of the Sky Garrett Putman Serviss
• Common Science Carleton Washburne
• The Practical Astronomer Thomas Dick
• The Einstein Theory of Relativity H. A. Lorentz
• Discourse on Bodies in Water Galileo Galilei
• Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia Karl von Gebler
• Michael Faraday, Man of Science Walter Jerrold
• Easy Lessons in Einstein Edwin E. Slosson
• The Poetry of Science Robert Hunt
• Popular Scientific Lectures Ernst Mach
• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Maria Mitchell
• The New Physics and Its Evolution Lucien Poincaré
• The Kaleidoscope: Its History, Theory and Construction David Brewster
• The Telescope Louis Bell
• Electricity W. H. McCormick
• Stargazing: Past and Present Norman Lockyer
• Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy John F. W. Herschel
• Side-Lights on Astronomy Simon Newcomb
• The Unseen World, and Other Essays John Fiske
• Experiments and Observations on Electricity Benjamin Franklin
• Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Robert P. Multhauf and Victor F. Lenzen
• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours Robert Boyle
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents Fulgence Marion
• Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Bernard de Fontenelle
• Waves and Ripples in Water, Air, and Æther J. A. Fleming
• Einstein and the Universe Charles Nordmann
• The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated Dionysius Lardner
• Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers Silvio A. Bedini
• Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works Edward S. Holden
• A-B-C of Electricity Wm. H. Meadowcroft
• Die Welträtsel Ernst Haeckel
• James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics Richard Glazebrook
• Essays on the Microscope George Adams
• Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them C. V. Boys
• Astronomy with an Opera-glass Garrett Putman Serviss
• The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet active 13th century de Maricourt Pierre
• Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain William Walker
• The Laws of Contrast of Colour M. E. Chevreul
• Endless Amusement Unknown
• General Science Bertha May Clark
• Six Lectures on Light John Tyndall
• The New Astronomy Samuel Pierpont Langley
• Lord Kelvin Andrew Gray
• Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men F. Arago
• The Universe Around Us James Jeans
• Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies David Peck Todd
• Lectures on Stellar Statistics C. V. L. Charlier
• Faraday as a Discoverer John Tyndall
• The Splash of a Drop A. M. Worthington
• Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose
• Through the Telescope James Baikie
• On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
• Electricity and Magnetism Elisha Gray
• The Heavens Above J. A. Gillet
• The Plurality of Worlds William Whewell
• Are the Planets Inhabited? E. Walter Maunder
• Astronomy in a Nutshell Garrett P. Serviss
• Kepler Walter W. Bryant
• Electricity and Its Everyday Uses John F. Woodhull
• The Royal Observatory, Greenwich E. Walter Maunder
• The Uses of Astronomy Edward Everett
• An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism Giovanni Aldini
• The Discovery of a World in the Moone John Wilkins
• The Atom and the Bohr Theory of Its Structure H. A. Kramers and Helge Holst
• The Herschels and Modern Astronomy Agnes M. Clerke
• The Hell Bomb William L. Laurence
• Science in Short Chapters W. Mattieu Williams
• Flowers of the Sky Richard A. Proctor
• Round the Year with the Stars Garrett P. Serviss
• The Ether of Space Oliver Lodge
• Comet Lore Edwin Emerson
• Lives of the Electricians William T. Jeans
• The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century Thomas Henry Huxley
• Popular Books on Natural Science Aaron Bernstein
• Heroes of Science: Physicists William Garnett
• The Story of Electricity John Munro
• Astronomy and General Physics William Whewell
• Liquid Drops and Globules Charles R. Darling
• Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing
• Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy John Ambrose Fleming
• The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite James Nasmyth
• The Stereoscope Sir David Brewster
• Letters on Natural Magic David Brewster
• The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars Agnes Giberne
• The Destinies of the Stars Svante Arrhenius
• New Theories in Astronomy William Stirling
• Invention and Discovery Anonymous
• The Future of Astronomy Edward C. Pickering
• Man’s Place in the Universe Alfred Russel Wallace
• A Century’s Progress in Astronomy Hector Macpherson
• The Belfast Address John Tyndall
• Is Mars Habitable? Alfred Russel Wallace
• An Original Theory of the Universe Thomas Wright
• Time and Its Measurement James Arthur
• Mars and Its Mystery Edward S. Morse
• Stars and Atoms Arthur Stanley Eddington
• Rough Ways Made Smooth Richard A. Proctor
• Natural Philosophy Wilhelm Ostwald
• The Machinery of the Universe A. E. Dolbear
• Stars of the Southern Skies M. A. Orr
• An Epitome of Electricity and Galvanism Jacob Green and Erskine Hazard
• Principles of Electricity Maynard Shipley
• The Copernicus of Antiquity Thomas L. Heath
• The Evolution of Worlds Percival Lowell
• The Romance of Comets Mary Proctor
• Outlines of Creation Elisha Noyce
• Artificial and Natural Flight Hiram S. Maxim
• Time and Tide Robert S. Ball
• The Wonders of Optics Fulgence Marion
• The Moon Garrett P. Serviss
• Comets and Meteors Daniel Kirkwood
• Lightning, Thunder and Lightning Conductors Gerald Molloy