JF Ptak Science Books    Post 1964

This is a short and developing list of 36 principal works in the history of science, a list of integral and indispensable thinking. Its just the beginning of the list, really, and for the most part I’ve selected only one or two examples for each letter–the process has been pretty quick and without too much need for deliberation, what with selecting the obvious and all.  Nearly all are selected from the collection of the University of Adelaide, which has more full text works across the fields of intellectual history.
 

Edwin A.
Abbott, 1838–1926
    Flatland

Aristotle
(384–322 BC)
    Physics (or Physica); On the
Heavens (or De Caelo); On Generation and Corruption (or De
Generatione et Corruptione); Meteorology (or Meteorologica);
On the Soul (or De Anima); Parva Naturalia (or Little
Physical Treatises):; On sense and the sensible (or De Sensu
et Sensibilibus); On memory and reminiscence (or De Memoria
et Reminiscentia); On sleep and sleeplessness (or De Somno
et Vigilia);  etc.

Archimedes,
ca.287–212 BCE
    On the Sphere and Cylinder;
Measurement of a Circle; On Conoids and Spheroids;
On Spirals; On the Equilibrium of Planes; The
Sand-Reckoner; The Quadrature of the Parabola; On
Floating Bodies; Book of Lemmas; The Method
Treating of Mechanical Problems