📚 Physics

From falling apples to quantum fields: the rules everything else has to obey, and the experiments that found them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject physics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The ABC of atoms	Bertrand Russell	1923	105
	Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie	Albert Einstein	1917	102
	Physics	Aristotle	1472	88
	How Things Work	Louis A. Bloomfield	1995	62
	Physics for scientists and engineers	Paul A. Tipler	1990	56
	Fundamentals Of Electricity And Magnetism	McGraw-Hill	2001	47
	Fundamentals of physics	David Halliday	1970	45
	University physics	Francis Weston Sears	1949	40
	Physics	Douglas C. Giancoli	1980	40
	Physics for scientists and engineers	Raymond A. Serway	1982	39
	College physics	Randall Dewey Knight	2006	38
	What If?	Randall Munroe	1980	37
	Conceptual physics	Paul G. Hewitt	1971	35
	The Tao of Physics	Fritjof Capra	1975	35
	Physical science	Bill W. Tillery	1991	34
	A Briefer History of Time	Stephen Hawking	2005	34
	Physics	John D. Cutnell	1989	33
	Six Ideas That Shaped Physics	Thomas A. Moore	1998	32
	The Dancing Wu Li Masters	Gary Zukav	1979	30
	Physics	Eugene Hecht	1994	30
	The Feynman Lectures on Physics	Richard Phillips Feynman	1963	28
	Relativitätstheorie	Albert Einstein	1921	27
	Physics and philosophy	Werner Heisenberg	1958	27
	Genius	James Gleick	1992	27
	Physical chemistry	Robert A. Alberty	1955	26
	College physics	Raymond A. Serway	1985	24
	Fundamentals of Physics	David Halliday	1996	24
	Essential university physics	Richard Wolfson	1988	22
	The theory of everything	Stephen Hawking	2002	22
	Moderne Physik	Max Born	1933	21

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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