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• Les Principes de la Philosophie (translated into French; Paris: D. Horthemels, 1724), by René Descartes
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)
• The Mysteryes of Nature and Art (London: Printed for R. Mab, 1634), by John Bate
  • page images at loc.gov
  • PDF at loc.gov
• Natural Magick (London: Printed for T. Young and S. Speed, 1658), by Giambattista della Porta
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Philosophical and Physical Opinions Written by Her Excellency the Lady Marchionesse of Newcastle (London: Printed for J. Martin and J. Allestrye, 1655), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Philosophical History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris: or, An Abridgment of All the Papers Relating to Natural Philosophy, Which Have Been Publish'd by the Members of That Illustrious Society from the Year 1699 to 1720; With Many Curious Observations Relating to the Natural History and Anatomy of Animals, &c. (5 volumes; London: J. and P. Knapton, 1742), by Académie des Sciences (France), ed. by John Martyn and Ephraim Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections Upon Some Opinions in Natural Philosophy (London, 1664), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries; Whereunto is Newly Added the History Natural and Experimental of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life (includes a biography of Bacon by Rawley; London: Printed by J. R. for W. Lee, 1670), by Francis Bacon, contrib. by William Rawley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (Paris: Printed by G. Blaizot, 1644), by Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two Treatises: In the One of Which, The Nature of Bodies, In the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into, In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules (London: Printed for J. Williams, 1645), by Kenelm Digby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves (2 volumes; London: Printed for D. Brown et al., 1708-1710), by John Harris
  • Volume 1 (second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Mundus Subterraneus, in XII Libros Digestus (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; 1665), by Athanasius Kircher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Opera Omnia (6 volumes in Latin; Florence: Typ. Regiae Celsitudinis, 1727), by Pierre Gassendi, ed. by Nicolò Averani (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Review of the Works of the Royal Society of London: Containing Animadversions on Such of the Papers as Deserve Particular Observation (London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1751), by John Hill (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Oeuvres Complètes de Bernard Palissy: Édition Conforme aux Textes Originaux Imprimés du Vivant de l'Auteur, Avec des Notes et une Notice Historique (in French; Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et cie, 1844), by Bernard Palissy, ed. by Paul-Antoine Cap
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On Generation and Corruption, by Aristotle, trans. by Harold H. Joachim (HTML at Internet Classics)

• Cosmologia Sacra: or A Discourse of the Universe As it is the Creature and Kingdom of God (London: Printed for W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, 1701), by Nehemiah Grew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Astro-Theology: or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, From a Survey of the Heavens (second edition, corrected; London: W. Innys, 1715), by W. Derham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Astro-Theology: or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, From a Survey of the Heavens (9th edition; London: Printed for J. Richardson, 1758), by W. Derham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth, Together With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth (1698), by John Keill (page images and HTML at chlt.org)

• The Cure of Deism: or, The Mediatorial Scheme by Jesus Christ the Only True Religion (2 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1737), by Elisha Smith
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume (Gutenberg text)
• The Folewer to the Donet (EETS original series #164; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, 1924), by Reginald Pecock, ed. by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, by Samuel Clarke (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Gleanings of Antiquities (London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1724), by John Beaumont
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Sacred Theory of the Earth (first edition, 1684), by Thomas Burnet (page images and HTML at chlt.org)
• The Sacred Theory of the Earth (second edition, 1691), by Thomas Burnet (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• A Review of The Theory of the Earth and of Its Proofs, Especially in Reference to Scripture (London: Printed by R. Norton for W. Kettilby, 1690), by Thomas Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Against Hermogenes, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth, Together With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth (1698), by John Keill (page images and HTML at chlt.org)
• God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards; With the Complete Text of The End for Which God Created the World, by John Piper, contrib. by Jonathan Edwards (PDF with commentary at desiringgod.org)

• The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments (based on the second English edition of 1758), by N. Bion, ed. by Edmund Stone, contrib. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)

• The New Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: or, An Universal System of Useful Knowledge (2 volumes; London: A. Hogg and S. Leacroft, 1778), contrib. by Erasmus Middleton, William Turnbull, Thomas Ellis, and John Davison
  • Volume I (A-H): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (I-Z): multiple formats at archive.org

• Ioan. Henrici Alstedii Scientiarum Omnium Encyclopaediae (4 volumes, in Latin; Lyon: I. A. Huguetan and M. A. Ravaud, 1649), by Johann Heinrich Alsted
  • all volumes: multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • Volume 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 2: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 3: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 4: page images at HathiTrust

• Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries; Whereunto is Newly Added the History Natural and Experimental of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life (includes a biography of Bacon by Rawley; London: Printed by J. R. for W. Lee, 1670), by Francis Bacon, contrib. by William Rawley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries; Whereunto is Newly Added the History Natural and Experimental of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life (includes a biography of Bacon by Rawley; London: Printed by J. R. for W. Lee, 1670), by Francis Bacon, contrib. by William Rawley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History of the Royal Society of London, For the Improving of Natural Knowledge (London: Printed for T. Knapton et al., 1734), by Thomas Sprat (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon, Including His Dignity and Advancement of Learning, in Nine Books, and His Novum Organum, or, Precepts for the Interpretation of Nature (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853), by Francis Bacon, ed. by Joseph Devey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Baconiana: or, Certain Genuine Remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans (London: Printed by J. D. for R. Chiswell, 1679), by Francis Bacon, ed. by Thomas Tenison
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)
• Posterior Analytics, by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. G. Mure (HTML at Internet Classics)

• Galen's Institutio Logica: English Translation, Introduction, and Commentary (originally published 1964; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Galen, ed. by John Spangler Kieffer (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Institutio Logicae, ad Communes Usus Accommodata (fourth edition, in Latin; Oxford: L. Lichfield, 1715), by John Wallis
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955), by John of Salisbury, ed. by Daniel D. McGarry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)
• Euthydemus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Euthydemus, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• Posterior Analytics, by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. G. Mure (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Prior Analytics, by Aristotle, trans. by A. J. Jenkinson (HTML at Internet Classics)
• De Dialectica, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by Jim Marchand (HTML with commentary at Georgetown)

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