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Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie

by Albert Einstein

In your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid's geometry, and yo...

1917 102 ed.
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

A WELL-KNOWN SCIENTIST (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.

1988 119 ed.
La Poetica
La Poetica

by Aristotle

We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...

1479 498 ed.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

1899 552 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

1859 465 ed.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...

1911 1594 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

1865 3546 ed.
Democracy and Education
Democracy and Education

by John Dewey

The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

1916 184 ed.
The Tao of Physics
The Tao of Physics

by Fritjof Capra

Modern physics has had a profound influence on almost all aspects of human society.

1975 35 ed.
The Emperor's New Mind
The Emperor's New Mind

by Roger Penrose

OVER THE PAST few decades, electronic computer technology has made enormous strides.

1989 28 ed.
Siete breves lecciones de física
Siete breves lecciones de física

by Carlo Rovelli

Queste lezioni sono state scritte per chi la scienza moderna non la conosce o la conosce poco.

2014 13 ed.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Sean Runnette

This is the edited transcript of an interview with Fevnman made for the BBC television program Horizon in 1981, shown in...

1999 13 ed.
The Elegant Universe
The Elegant Universe

by Brian Greene

Calling it a cover-up would be far too dramatic.

1999 30 ed.