Cosimo Classics

One of the foremost figures of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century, John Stuart Mill offered up examinations of human rights, personal and societal rights and responsibilities, and...

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and...

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and...

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures is a treatise on labor economics and how to reduce the cost of workers by dividing tasks based on skill level. In his Preface, Babbage claimed that the...

A disciple of Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer took the Kantian concept that all knowledge derives from experience and broadened it to conclude that our experience of the world is necessarily...

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera: An Essay by The Father of Modern EpidemiologyAuthor: John SnowPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Apr 30, 2020Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage:...

Titled De rerum natura in Latin, On the Nature of Things, written by Titus Lucretius Carus and translated by John Selby Watson, is an epic poem and philosophical essay in one. Written with the intent...

Before "New Age" there was "New Thought," a philosophy that sought God through metaphysics and was wildly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American mystic and best-selling author...

If we look at human society with a calm and disinterested eye, it seems, at first, to show us only the violence of the powerful and the oppression of the weak. The mind is shocked at the cruelty of...

If we look at human society with a calm and disinterested eye, it seems, at first, to show us only the violence of the powerful and the oppression of the weak. The mind is shocked at the cruelty of...

On the Origins of Money is a discussion of the history of money and currency, from its crudest form as cowrie shells, animal pelts, and salt in early societies to the coin and paper money we use...

On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, is widely accepted as the seminal work in modern biology. Through careful observation, Charles Darwin explains how traits can be selected for within a...

On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, is widely accepted as the seminal work in modern biology. Through careful observation, Charles Darwin explains how traits can be selected for within a...

In 1854, Father John Henry Newman, future Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, entered the new Catholic University in Dublin as Rector - a post he held for four years. By way of preparation in...

On the Sensations of ToneAuthor: Hermann L. F. Von HelmholtzPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Apr 02, 2007Number of Pages: 600 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1602066388ISBN-13:...

On the Sensations of ToneAuthor: Hermann L. F. Von HelmholtzPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Apr 02, 2007Number of Pages: 600 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

On the Shores of the Great Sea, Book I of the Story of the WorldAuthor: M. B. SyngePublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2013Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

On the Shores of the Great Sea, Book I of the Story of the WorldAuthor: M. B. SyngePublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2013Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

"He hated you, you know. He used to wish you'd die. I told him that if he ever said so to me again I'd never see him any more." -Marion, One of My Oldest Friends, by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

The circulation of a mere rumor that the Morgan interests are accumulating Steel or that the Standard Oil crowd is getting out of St. Paul is sure at any time to create a market following. Most of...

The circulation of a mere rumor that the Morgan interests are accumulating Steel or that the Standard Oil crowd is getting out of St. Paul is sure at any time to create a market following. Most of...

Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of LightAuthor: Isaac NewtonPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 416 pagesBinding:...

January 16, 1916: Destiny is determined at the birth of the soul, and the will enters only to fulfill destiny. January 18, 1920: Rice is excellent: it contains the least disturbing quality in its...

CHARLES A. WARD is the most famous translator of the writings of Nostradamus (1503-1566). In this book, first published in 1891, he attempts to unravel the ancient seer's complex, often nonsensical,...

Originally published in 1908, Orthodoxy is a companion book for Chesterton's Heretics. In this volume, considered a classic example of Christian apologetic writing, Chesterton answers his detractors...

The Economist magazine recently called him "a Robin Hood of the law" American lawyer LOUIS DEMBITZ BRANDEIS (1856-1941) developed the concept of the "right to privacy" in an 1890 law journal article,...

The Economist magazine recently called him "a Robin Hood of the law" American lawyer LOUIS DEMBITZ BRANDEIS (1856-1941) developed the concept of the "right to privacy" in an 1890 law journal article,...

With its wonderfully florid and poetic descriptions of the denizens of the signs of the zodiac, this 1900 book is a delightful example of the theatrics we associate with turn-of-the-20th-century...

"When the standard of the Union is raised and waves over my head-the standard which Washington planted on the ramparts of the Constitution, God forbid that I should inquire whom the people have...

"In story and in treatment the novel is wholly of our own day, but in spirit and feeling it makes evident the paternity of Charles Dickens." -"Latest Works of Fiction," The New York Times, March 1,...