Resources

Charles Babbage. Ninth Bridgwater Treatise. 1838.

Charles Darwin

Voyage of the Beagle. 1839.
Origin of Species. 1859 edition. pdf files.
Descent of Man. 1871.

J.B.S. Haldane Daedalus, or Science and the Future. 1923.

David Hume Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2006 [1748].

Bill Joy Why the future doesn’t need us. Wired Magazine. April 2000.

J.B. Lamarck. Zoological Philosophy. Part I. [1809] [pdf] Lamarck-JB-ZoologicalPhilosophy-Part1

Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace An Essay Concerning Probabilities 1814.

Lucretius. De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe)
50 B.C.E.

Marvin Minsky. A Framework for Representing Knowledge 1974.

William Paley. Natural History: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes
of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature 1802. (~404 pages).
Read online.

Download Open Library pdf

Bertrand Russell. Icarus, or the Future of Science 1924.

Erwin Schrødinger. What Is Life? 1944. [pdf]

Adam Smith. Theory of Moral Sentiments 1759.

Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 1776.

A.M. Turing. On computable numbers with an application to the entscheidungsproblem. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. Ser. 2. 42:230 – 265. 1936 – 7. [pdf]

Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence. Mind. 1950. [pdf]

Leonardo da Vinci. Notebooks. vol. 1. Transcribed 1888. Project Gutenberg.

Alfred Russel Wallace. Darwinism 1889.

My Life. 1905.

Carl Woese. A New Biology for a New Century. 2004.