Source Readings
  • Aristotle, Physics (c. 330 B.C.)
  • Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (c. 60 B.C.)
  • Isaac Newton, “Rules” and “General Scholium” from Philosophiae Naturalis
  • Principia Mathematica (1687/1713/1726)
  • Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916)
  • Max Planck, “The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory” (1922)
  • Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? (1944)
  • Edwin Hubble, The Realms of the Nebulae (1937)
  • Fred Hoyle, The Nature of the Universe (1950)
  • Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (1977)
  • James Gleick, Chaos (1987)
  • Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988)
  • Paul Davies, The New Physics (1989)