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• The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), ed. by Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, Edward Slowik, and C. Kenneth Waters (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Soul of the Universe (Philadelphia: D. McKay Co., 1940), by Gustaf Strömberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Theorie der Physik, bei den Modernen Physikern (translated into German; Leipzig: W. Klinkhardt, 1908), by Abel Rey, trans. by Rudolf Eisler
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• Hydrodynamics: A Study in Logic, Fact, and Similitude (New York, Dover Publications, 1955), by Garrett Birkhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Théorie de la Physique Chez les Physiciens Contemporains (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1907), by Abel Rey
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• The Nature of the Physical World (New York: Macmillan, Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1929), by Arthur Stanley Eddington (Gutenberg illustrated HTML)
• The Principia, or, The First Principles of Natural Things: Being New Attempts Toward a Philosophical Explanation of the Elementary World (2 volumes; London: W. Newbery; Boston: O. Clapp, 1845-1846), by Emanuel Swedenborg, trans. by Augustus Clissold
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• The logic of modern physics (The Macmillan Company, 1938), by P. W. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sōzein ta phainomena; essai sur la notion de théorie physique de Platon a Galilée (A. Hermann et fils, 1908), by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Physik und Erkenntnistheorie (B. G. Teubner, 1921), by Ernst Gehrcke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notions synthétiques, historiques et physiologiques de philosophie naturelle (Dénain, 1838), by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes de philosophie physique pour servir de base à la métaphysique de la nature, et à la physique expérimentale (Ladrange [etc.], 1845), by L. A. Gruyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthropomorphism and physics (H. Milford, 1928), by Thomas Percy Nunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Krisis der Axiome der modernen Physik. Reform der Naturwissenschaft. (Druck von G. Buzarovits, 1908), by Gustav Pécxi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mécanisme, L'énergétique et le. (F. Alcan, 1908), by Abel Rey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mach's empirio-pragmatism in physical science (Albee Press], 1937), by Carlton Berenda Weinberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory (Pitman, 1960), by Wolfgang Yourgrau and Stanley Mandelstam (page images at HathiTrust)
• La physique moderne; essai sur l'unité des phénomènes naturels (G. Baillière;, 1867), by Émile Saigey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ziel und Struktur der physikalischen Theorien (J. A. Barth, 1908), by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The concepts and theories of modern physics. (D. Appleton and company, 1882), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operationism. (Thomas, 1955), by Abram Cornelius Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An outline of philosophy (G. Allen & Unwin, 1927), by Bertrand Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le retour éternel et la philosophie de la physique. (E. Flammarion, 1927), by Abel Rey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philosophy (W. W. Norton & company, inc., 1927), by Bertrand Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy and modern science (The Principia press, 1931), by Harold T. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy and modern science. (Principia Press, 1953), by Harold T. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qu'est-ce, au fond, que la science? Réflexions sur les théories de la physique ... (A. Michel, 1924), by Charles Ernest Vouillemin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophical impact of contemporary physics. (Van Nostrand, 1961), by Milič Čapek (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of matter (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927), by Bertrand Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Response of physical systems. (Wiley, 1950), by John Dezendorf Trimmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théorie physique: son objet, et sa structure (Chevalier & Rivière, 1906), by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time, space and atoms (The Williams & Wilkins company in cooperation with the Century of progress exposition, 1933), by Richard Threlkeld Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy of atomic physics. (Philosophical Library, 1958), by Joseph Mudry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die principien der wärmelehre. Historisch-kritisch entwickelt (J.A. Barth, 1900), by Ernst Mach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dynamic universe (C. Scribner's sons, 1931), by James MacKaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ėtudes sur la signification et la place de la physique dans la philosophie de Platon (F. Alean, 1919), by Léon Robin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An introduction to scale coordinate physics; an introduction to the formalization of the macro operational point of view. (Burgess Pub. Co., 1958), by William Bender (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Physik und hypothese; versuch einer induktiven wissenschaftslehre, nebst einer kritischen analyse der fundamente der relativitätstheorie (W. de Gruyter & co., 1921), by Hugo Dingler (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théorie de la physique chez les physiciens contemporains : exposé des théories (F. Alcan, 1923), by Abel Rey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Was ist materie? Zwei aufsätze zur naturphilosophie (J. Springer, 1924), by Hermann Weyl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The soul in nature : with supplementary contributions (H.G. Bohn, 1970), by Hans Christian Ørsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vor den Toren der neuen Zeit (F. Meiner, 1926), by Werner Kuntz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concerning knowledge, philosophic and scientific; a theory of knowledge which also includes a criticism of present scientific methods and findings (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1936), by Hugh Wheeler Sanford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Wahrnehmungsproblem vom Standpunkte des Physikers, des Physiologen und des Philosophen. Beiträge zur Erkenntnistheorie und empirischen Psychologie. (Duncker & Humblot, 1892), by Hermann Schwarz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die zeit-und raumlehre Kants (transzendentale aesthetik) in anwendung auf mathematik und naturwissenschaft (E. Reinhardt, 1927), by Ernst Marcus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The logic of modern physics (Macmillan, 1928), by P. W. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of matter (Harcourt, Brace ;, 1927), by Bertrand Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The concepts and theories of modern physics (D. Appleton, 1885), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sling : letters to the Royal Institution, the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Admiralty, May 1905 to May 1912 (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1913), by William Leighton Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Principien der Wärmlehre : historisch-kritisch Entwickelt (Barth, 1896), by Ernst Mach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relativitätstheorie und Ökonomieprinzip. (S. Hirzel, 1922), by Hugo Dingler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das heutige weltbild aus idealistischen prinzip (A. Bänder's buchhandlung (L. Kessler), 1922), by Arthur Adler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roger Bacons Naturphilosophie : insbesondere seine Lehren von Materie und Form, Individuation und Universalität (Aschendorff, 1916), by Clemens Baeumker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Études sur la signification et la place de la physique dans la philosphie de Platon (F. Alcan, 1919), by Léon Robin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measurements of mind and matter. (Philosophical Library, 1956), by G. W. Scott Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die prinzipien der mechanischen naturlehre. Ein kapitel aus einer philosophie der naturwissenschaften (F. Enke, 1910), by Wilhelm Max Wundt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das System der speculativen Philosophie : 1. Bd. Naturphilosophie (H. Prausnitz, 1841), by C. G. Nees von Esenbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hydrodynamics; a study in logic, fact, and similitude. (Princeton University Press for University of Cincinnati, 1950), by Garrett Birkhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical substance (s.n., 1927), by Victor Fritz Lenzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Principien der Wärmelehre : Historisch-kritisch Entwickelt (J. A. Barth, 1919), by Ernst Mach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philosophia naturalis Guilielmi Occham ... (The Gregg Press Establishment, 1963), by of Ockham William and Bonaventura Theuli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Principien der Wärmelehre : historisch-kritisch Entwickelt (Barth, 1896), by Ernst Mach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Immanuel Kants kleinere Schriften zur Naturphilosophie (Dürr'sche Buchhandlung, 1907), by Immanuel Kant and Otto Buek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Weltmechanik, Beiträge zur Metaphysik der Physik (J.A. Barth, 1925), by Menyhért Palágyi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of nature ([s.n.], 1847), by Oliver Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kepler und Newton und das Problem der Gravitation in der Kantischen, Schellingschen und Hegelschen Naturphilosophie (C. Winter, 1908), by Otto Closs (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théorie physique : son objet, sa structure (M. Rivière, 1914), by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principio de relatividad : sus fundamentos experimentales y filosóficos y su evolución histórica ([Residencia de Estudiantes], 1923), by Blas Cabrera (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature of the physical world (Macmillan, 1928), by Arthur Stanley Eddington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where is science going? (AMS Press, 1977), by Max Planck (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of the principles of natural philosophy (Printed for G. Robinson, 1811), by Matthew Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schriften : Alt und Neu (Verlag von Josef Max, 1821), by Henrich Steffens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einleitung zu den Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik (J. A. Barth, 1903), by Hermann von Helmholtz, Carl Runge, and Arthur König (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours philosophiques : le premier sur les causes finales: le second sur l'inertie de la matière; et le troisième sur la liberté des actions humaines (Guillyn, 1759), by David Renaud Boullier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The methodology of Pierre Duhem. (AMS Press, 1967), by Armand Lowinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The principia or The first principles of natural things: to which are added the minor principia (The Swedenborg Society ;, 1912), by Emanuel Swedenborg, Isaiah Tansley, James R. Rendell, and London Swedenborg Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le qualità del mondo fisico; studi di filosofia naturale. (Galletti e Cocci, 1916), by Enzo Bonaventura (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new philosophy : the science of physical phenomena : first explanations of electricity, gravitation, repulsion and the new atomic element rex : new explanations of sound, heat, light, cohesion, magnetism, atmosphere, astronomy, and nervous force (Science Publishing Co., 1913), by Calvin Samuel Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die physikalische und philosophische Atomenlehre. (H. Mendelssohn, 1864), by Gustav Theodor Fechner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of natural philosophy : for the use of schools and private learners (Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. and Carey & Hart, 1846), by C. List (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wells's natural philosophy; for the use of schools, academies, and private students: introducing the latest results of scientific discovery and research; arranged with special reference to the practical application of physical science to the arts and the experiences of every-day life. With three hundred and seventy-five engravings. (Ivison & Phinney;, 1859), by David A. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben der unorganischen Natur : eine Gedächtniss-Feier der 300 jährigen Begründungszeit des copernicanischen Systems, den 11. Junius 1843 in der Aula Leopoldina zu Breslau : gehaltene öffentliche Vorlesung (Grass, Barth und Comp., 1843), by Georg Friedrich Pohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin of force (Author, 1918), by William G. Conklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la notion de théorie physique de Platon à Galilée. (A. Hermann, 1908), by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (page images at HathiTrust)
• La physique moderne; études historiques et philosophiques. (G. Baillière et cie, 1883), by Ernest Naville (page images at HathiTrust)
• From aether to cosmos : cosmology (The Bruce Publishing Company, 1941), by Celestine N. Bittle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elements of natural philosophy, arranged under the following heads: Matter and motion, The universe, The solar system, The fixed stars, The earth considered as a planet, The atmosphere, Meteors, Springs, rivers, and the sea, Fossils, Plants, Animals, The human frame, and The human understanding. (Published by James P. Parke, 1807) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concepts and theories of modern physics. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1900), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chemical and physical reactions ([s.n.], 1902), by W. Lash Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Weltanschauung der modernen Physik. (Hermann Haacke, 1902), by Eduard von Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomistik und Kriticismus : ein Beitrag zur erkenntnisstheoretischen Grundlegung der Physik (F. Vieweg, 1878), by Kurd Lasswitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Begriffe und Theorien der modernen Physik (J. A. Barth, 1901), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aanden i naturen (Andr. Fred. Röst, 1856), by Hans Christian Ørsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vor naturerkjendelse, bidrag til en mathematikens og fysikens theori. (Kjøbenhavn, 1883), by Kristian Frederik Vilheim Kroman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La matière et la physique moderne (F. Alcan, 1884), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naturphilosophische Vorlesungen über die Grundprobleme des Bewusstseins. (O. Günther, 1907), by Melchior Palágyi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle on coming-to-be & passing-away (De generatione et corruptione) (Clarendon press, 1922), by Aristotle and Harold H. Joachim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Stellung der neueren Physik zur mechanischen Naturanschauung; Vortrag gehalten am 23. September 1910 auf der 82. Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in Königsberg i Pr. (S. Hirzel, 1910), by Max Planck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Geist in der Natur (C.B. Lorck, 1850), by Hans Christian Ørsted and P. L. Møller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concepts and theories of modern physics. (D. Appleton and Company, 1897), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory of space. (Roslyn Estates, N.Y., 1955), by Herbert S. Ingham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The concepts and theories of modern physics (D. Appleton and company, 1888), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Principien der Wärmelehre : historisch-kritisch Entwickelt (Barth, 1896), by Ernst Mach (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'énergétique et le mécanisme au point de vue des conditions de la connaissance (Paris, 1907), by Abel Rey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature of the physical world (Macmillan, 1940), by Arthur Stanley Eddington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatises on several very important subjects, in natural philosophy (Printed for the author by Wason and Foxwell ;, 1832), by Walter Forman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concepts and theories of modern physics. (Appleton and company, 1891), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théorie de la physique chez les physiciens contemporains (F. Alcan, 1923), by Abel Rey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die empirischen und logischen Grundlagen der Physik (Helsingfors : Akademische Buchhandlung, [1927], 1927), by H. J. Mellin (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théorie physique, son objet - sa structure. (M. Rivière, 1914), by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The logic of modern physics, by P. W. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)

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