Links to texts in the Science list with decent public-domain versions and notes about newly available translations (if any).

Aristotle, Physics
Excerpts and links to public domain versions

Nicolaus Copernicus, Commentariolus
Excerpts and links to ebook versions

Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
Excerpts and links to public domain versions

Robert Hooke, Micrographia
Excerpts and links to both public domain text versions and paid versions with illustrations

Isaac Newton, “Rules” and “General Scholium” from Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Complete Rules and Scholium, along with a link to a public domain version of the entire work

Georges Cuvier, “Preliminary Discourse”
Excerpts and links to the entire public domain work

Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology
Excerpts and links to public domain versions

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Excerpts and links to the 1859 version

Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization
Excerpts and links to public domain versions

Albert Einstein, The General Theory of Relativity
Links to both paid and free ebook versions

Max Planck, “The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory”
Links to the entire (brief) address

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