Great Books of Science

Gilbert/Galileo/Harvey (Vol. 28)

Here is a list of the works of William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, and William Harvey that are contained in the Great Books of the Western World, published by Encyclopedia Britannica. If a selection is clickable, it means that this amateur has read at least enough of it to make a comment or two:

William Gilbert (1540-1603)

• On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

• Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
  Contents
  1. First New Science, Treating of the Resistance which Solid Bodies Offer to Fracture. First Day
  2. Concerning the Cause of Cohesion. Second Day
  3. Second New Science, Treating of Motion. Third Day
     • Uniform Motion
     • Naturally Accelerated Motion
  4. Violent Motions. Projectiles. Fourth Day

• An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
• The First Anatomical Disquisition on the Circulation of the Blood, Addressed to John Riolan
• A Second Disquisition to John Riolan, in which Many Objections to the Circulation of the Blood Are Refuted
• Anatomical Exercises on the Generation of Animals

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