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Accademia del cimento
Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del cimento sotto la protezione del serenissimo principe Leopoldo di Toscana e descritte dal segretario di essa accademia (1666)


Aldrovandi, Ulisse
De animalibvs insectis libri septem (1602)


Aubrey, John
Miscellanies (1721)

Bacon, Francis
Of the advancement and proficience of learning (1640)


Bacon, Francis
Baconiana (1679)


Bacon, Francis
Essays (1614)


Barrough, Philip
The method of physick (1624)


Barrow, Isaac
Lectiones geometricae (1670)


Baxter, Richard
The unreasonableness of infidelity (1655)


Beaumont, John
An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcraftes, and other magical practices (1705)


Behn, Aphra
Poems upon several occasions (1684)


Berkeley, George
A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (1710)


Birch, Thomas
The history of the Royal Society of London (1756-57)


Bodin, Jean
De la demonomanie des sorciers (1586)


Boswell, James
The life of Samuel Johnson (1791)


Boyle, Robert
The general history of the air (1692)


Boyle, Robert
The origine of formes and qualities (1667)


Boyle, Robert
Works (1744)


Brahe, Tycho
Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata [1589]-1602


Bunyan, John
The pilgrim's progress (1683)


Burnet, Thomas
The theory of the earth (1684)


Burton, Robert
The anatomy of melancholy (1624)


Butler, Samuel
Hudibras : the second part (1664)


Casaubon, Meric
Of credulity and incredulity (1668)


Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant Don Quixote of the Mancha (1731)


Charleton, Walter
Onomasticon zoicon (1668)


Charron, Pierre
De la sagesse (1604)


Chillingworth, William
The religion of Protestants (1684)


Clarke, Samuel
A collection of papers (1717)


Clarke, Samuel
A martyrologie (1652)


Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de
An essay on the origin of human knowledge (1756)


Copernicus, Nicolaus
De revolutionibus orbium caelestium [1566]


Cudworth, Ralph
The true intellectual system of the universe (1678)


Defoe, Daniel
The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)


Descartes, René
De homine figuris (1664)


Descartes, René
Geometria (1659-1661)


Descartes, René
Opera philosophica (1644)


Diderot, Denis
Encyclopédie (1751-65)


Digby, Kenelm
Two treatises (1645)


Donne, John
Poems (1650)


Dryden, John
Sylvae (1685)


Euclid
Euclidis Megarensis mathematici clarissimi Elementorum geometricorum (1537)


Evelyn, John
Sylva (1670)


Fontenelle, M. de
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1687)


Franklin, Benjamin
Experiments and observations on electricity (1769)


Galilei, Galileo
Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche (1638)


Gassendi, Pierre
De vita et moribus Epicuri (1656)


Gassendi, Pierre
Institutio astronomica (1653)


Gibson, Thomas
The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized (1684)


Glanvill, Joseph
Scepsis scientifica (1665)


Grew, Nehemiah
Musaeum Regalis Societatis (1681)


Grotius, Hugo
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres (1701)


Grotius, Hugo
Defensio fidei Catholicae de satisfactione Christi adversur Faustum socinum senefem (1617)


Guericke, Otto von
Experimenta nova (1672)

Hales, Stephen
Vegetable staticks (1727)


Halley, Edmond
Tabulae astronomicae (1749)


Hammond, Henry
A letter of resolution to six quaeres (1653)


Harris, John
Lexicon technicum (1708)


Harvey, William
Exercitationes anatomicae (1660)


Helmont, Jean Baptiste van
A ternary of paradoxes (1650)

Hobbes, Thomas
Decameron physiologicum (1678)


Hobbes, Thomas
Leviathan (1651)


Hobbes, Thomas
Philosophical rudiments concerning government and society (1651)


Hume, David
An enquiry concerning the principles of morals (1751)


Hume, David
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding (1748)


Hutchinson, Francis
An historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718)


Jonson, Ben
Works (1640)


Kepler, Johannes
Tabulae Rudolphinae 1627-[1630]


Kepler, Johannes
Astronomia nova (1609)


La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
Homme machine (1750)


Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Opuscules physiques et chymiques (1774)


Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Traité élémentaire de chimie (1789)


Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Epistolae ad societatem regiam anglicam (1791)


Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Epistolae physiologicae, super compluribus naturae arcanis (1791)


Le Fèvre, Nicaise
A compleat body of chymistry (1670)


Lémery, Nicolas
A compleat history of drugs (1670)


Locke, John
An essay concerning human understanding (1700)


Locke, John
A second letter concerning toleration (1690)


Machiavelli, Niccolò
Tutte le opere (1550)


Mandeville, Bernard
The fable of the bees (1723)


Mariotte, Edmé
Works (1717)


Marvell, Andrew
Miscellaneous poems (1681)


Maupertuis
Figure of the earth (1738)


Milton, John
Paradise lost : a poem in ten books (1669)


Moffett, Thomas
Insectorum (1634)


Molière
Le medecin malgré luy : comedie (1674)


More, Henry
Philosophical poems (1647)


Newton, Isaac
Opticks (1718)


Newton, Isaac
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687)


Newton, Isaac
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1726)


Oughtred, William
The description and use of the double horizontall dyall (1652)


Owen, John
The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed (1654)


Paine, Thomas
Rights of man : being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution (1791)


Paracelsus
The Nature of Things (1650)


Pascal, Blaise
Pensées (1670)


Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
Traitez de l'equilibre des liqueurs (1662)


Pope, Alexander
The works (1717-1735)


Power, Henry
Experimental philosophy (1664)


Priestley, Joseph
The history and present state of electricity (1769)


Priestley, Joseph
Experiments and observations on different kinds of air (1774)


Prynne, William
Canterburies doome (1646)


Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von
De officio hominis et civis juxta legem naturalem (1701)


Purchas, Samuel
Purchas his Pilgrimage (1614)


Raleigh, Walter
The cabinet-council (1658)


Ray, John
Historia plantarum (1686-1704)


Redi, Francesco
Lettera di Francesco Redi (1685)


Reid, Thomas
Essays on the intellectual powers of man (1785)


Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (1755)


Shakespeare, William
Plays (1632)


Sherley, Thomas
A philosophical essay (1672)


Sidney, Philip
Selections. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1623)


South, Robert
Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's book entituled A vindication of the holy and ever-blessed trinity (1693)


Sprat, Thomas
The history of the Royal-Society of London (1667)


Sprat, Thomas
Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England (1665)


Stahl, Georg Ernst
Opusculum chymico-physico-medicum (1715)


Stanley, Thomas
The history of philosophy (1701)


Sterne, Laurence
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1779)


Stillingfleet, Edward
Origines sacrae

Stillingfleet, Edward
The Bishop of Worcester's answer to Mr. Locke's letter (1697)

Stubbe, Henry
A justification of the present war against the United Netherlands(1672)

Swammerdam, John
The book of nature (1758)

Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's travels(1726)

Tachard, Guy
A relation of the voyage to Siam (1688)

Thévenot, Jean de
The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant (1687)

Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
The Protestant religion vindicated, from the charge of singularity & novelty (1680)

A tryal of witches at the Assizes (1682)

Ussher, James
A briefe declaration of the universalitie of the church of Christ, and the unitie of the Catholike faith professed therein (1631)

Vesalius, Andreas
Opera omnia anatomica and chirurgica (1725)

Voltaire
Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton (1738)

Voltaire
Letters concerning the English nation (1733)

Wagstaffe, John
The question of witchcraft debated (1671)

Wallis, John
Tractatus duo (1659)

Wallis, John
Opera mathematica (1693-1699)

Webster, John
Metallographia (1671)

White, Thomas
The grounds of obedience and government (1655)

Willis, Thomas
De anima brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sentitiva est (1672)

Willughby, Francis
De historia piscium libri quatuor (1686)

Willughby, Francis
The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq (1678)

Wotton, William (1666-1727)
Reflections upon ancient and modern learning (1697)