Genre
Science & Ideas
8 works in this collection, sorted chronologically.
Elements
Euclid · 300 BC
Manual (Enchiridion)
Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey · 1011 AD
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon · 1620 AD
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton · 1687 AD
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859 AD
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Albert Einstein · 1916 AD
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym) · 2008 AD
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares · 2025 AD
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