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)