Discourse on Method
by Rene Descartes | 
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
by Albert Einstein | 
Meditations on First Philosophy
by Rene Descartes | 
Emile
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume | 
Two New Sciences
by Galileo Galilei | 
The Seven Mysteries of Life
by Guy Murchie | 
Pensees
by Blaise Pascal | 
Against Method
by Paul Feyerabend | 
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
Bad Astronomy
by Philip Plait | 
Critique of Judgement
by Immanuel Kant | 
Critical Path
by R. Buckminster Fuller | 
Synergetics
by R. Buckminster Fuller | 
Chance and Necessity
by Jacques Monod | 
Objective Knowledge
by Karl Popper | 
Creative Evolution
by Henri Bergson | 
I Seem to Be a Verb
by R. Buckminster Fuller | 
On the Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Nietzsche |
The Critique of Practical Reason
by Immanuel Kant |
The Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history of modern philosophy, and important to the evolution of natural sciences. In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism, which had previously been studied by Sextus Empiricus, Al-Ghazali and Michel de Montaigne. Descartes modified it to account for a truth he found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective, clear of any preconceived notions.