To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (66 page)

Horace,
Odes and Epodes,
trans. Niall Rudd (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004).

Christiaan Huygens,
The Pendulum Clock or Geometrical Demonstrations Concerning the Motion of Pendula as Applied to Clocks,
trans. Richard J. Blackwell (Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1986).

,
Treatise on Light,
trans. Silvanus P. Thompson (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1945).

Johannes Kepler,
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World,
trans. C. G. Wallis (Prometheus, Amherst, N.Y., 1995).

,
New Astronomy
(
Astronomia Nova
), trans. W. H. Donahue (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).

Omar Khayyam,
The Rubáiyát, the Five Authorized Editions,
trans. Edward Fitzgerald (Walter J. Black, New York, 1942).

,
The Rubáiyát, a Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations,
by Richard Le Gallienne (John Lan, London, 1928).

Lactantius,
Divine Institutes
, trans. A. Bowen and P. Garnsey (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2003).

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,
The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
, ed. H. G. Alexander (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1956).

Martin Luther,
Table Talk
, trans. W. Hazlitt (H. G. Bohn, London, 1857).

Moses ben Maimon,
Guide to the Perplexed
, trans. M. Friedländer, 2nd ed. (Routledge, London, 1919).

Isaac Newton,
The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton
, ed. D. Thomas Whiteside (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1968).

,
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
, trans. Florian Cajori, rev. trans. Andrew Motte (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962).

,
Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light
(Dover, New York, 1952, based on 4th ed., London, 1730).

,
The Principia—Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
, trans. I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, with “A Guide to Newton’s
Principia
,” by I. Bernard Cohen (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1999).

Nicole Oresme,
The Book of the Heavens and the Earth
, trans. A. D. Menut and A. J. Denomy (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1968).

Philo,
The Works of Philo
, trans. C. D. Yonge (Hendrickson, Peabody, Mass., 1993).

Plato,
Phaedo
, trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff (Hackett, Indianapolis, Ind., 1995).

,
Plato
, Volume 9 (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1929). Includes
Phaedo
, etc.

,
Republic
, trans. Robin Wakefield (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993).

,
Timaeus and Critias
, trans. Desmond Lee (Penguin, New York, 1965).

,
The Works of Plato
, trans. Benjamin Jowett (Modern Library, New York, 1928). Includes
Phaedo, Republic, Theaetetus
, etc.

Ptolemy,
Almagest
, trans. G. J. Toomer (Duckworth, London, 1984).

,
Optics
, trans. A. Mark Smith, in “Ptolemy’s Theory of Visual Perception—An English Translation of the
Optics
with Commentary,”
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
86
, Part 2 (1996).