| A | B |
| 1543 On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres | Copernicus |
| 1605 The Advancement of Learning | Bacon |
| 1609 The New Astronomy | Kepler |
| 1610 The Starry Messenger | Galileo |
| 1620 Novum Organum | Bacon |
| 1632 Dialogue of the Two Chief World Systems | Galileo |
| 1637 Discourse on Method | Descartes |
| 1651 Leviathan | Hobbes |
| 1687 Principia Mathematica | Newton |
| 1689 Letter Concerning Toleration | Locke |
| 1690 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Locke |
| 1690 Treatises of Government | Locke |