List of publications in physics

title page of book — Title page of the first edition of Isaac Newton's Opticks (1704)

This is a list of publications in physics, organized by type.

General audience

List of books on popular physics concepts

Textbooks

Books and treatises before 1900

Aristotle, Physics (4th century BC)
Aristotle, On the Heavens (4th century BC)
Ptolemy, Almagest (2nd century AD)
Ibn al-Haytham, Book of Optics (circa 1015)

Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
Alonso de la Vera Cruz, Physica speculatio (1557)
Simon Stevin, De Beghinselen Der Weeghconst (1586)
Galileo Galilei, De motu antiquiora (circa 1590)
Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)
William Gilbert, De Magnete (1600)
Galileo Galilei, Le Mecaniche (circa 1600)
Johannes Kepler, Astronomia nova (1609)
Johannes Kepler, Harmonice Mundi (1619)
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
Galileo Galilei, Two New Sciences (1638)
René Descartes. Principles of Philosophy (1644)
Christiaan Huygens, Horologium Oscillatorium (1673)
Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light (1690)
Isaac Newton, Opticks (1704)
Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (1738)
Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751)
Johann Heinrich Lambert, Photometria (1760)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Mécanique analytique (1788)
Pierre-Simon Laplace, Traité de mécanique céleste (1798)
Sadi Carnot, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824)
William Kingdon Clifford, Elements of Dynamic (1878)
James Clerk Maxwell, An Elementary Treatise on Electricity (1881)

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