Continuing the theme of my last post, the publisher Prometheus (which is now owned by Roman & Littlefield) has perhaps a more extensive catalog of "classics" in physics and astronomy than the others mentioned in my previous post. As far as I can tell, their Great Minds series includes:
- Moritz Schlick's Space and Time in Contemporary Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity and Gravitation.
- Fred Holye's Of Men and Galaxies.
- James Clerk Maxwell's Matter and Motion.
- William Thomson and Peter Guthrie Tait's The Elements of Natural Philosophy.
- Marie Curie's Radioactive Substances.
- Michael Faraday's The Forces of Matter.
- Johannes Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World. (Selections of both works are published together in a single volume.)
- Nicholaus Copernicus' On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres.
- Galileo Galilei's Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences.
- Isaac Newton's Principia.
- Albert Einstein's Relativity.
Some of the above volumes consist only in selections, rather than the entire work.
This series is perhaps second only to Dover Publications in its effort to keep in print some of the classic works in the history of physics and astronomy.
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