Dedekind’s Continuity and Irrational Numbers (1872)
Zeno’s paradox
Bolzmann’s “Further studies on the equilibrium distribution of heat energy among gas molecules” (H-Theorem, 1872)
Boltzmann’s “Studies on the Equipartition of Thermal Kinetic Energy among Material Point Masses” (Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution, Boltzmann Factor)
Ostwald’s Energeticism vs. Boltzmann’s Atomism
Gibb’s “Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics” (Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistics, 1902)
Picture of tombstone with “S = k log W”
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grade Jatte
Chevreul’s “The law of simultaneous contrast”
Ogden Rood’s “Modern Chromatics”
James Clerk Maxwell’s “retinal after-image”
Helmholtz’s “Physiological Optics”
Ernst Brucke’s “The Physiology of Color”
Charles Henry’s writing on psychological esthetics in which he wanted to give rigorously mathematical scientific explanations for all the elements of art
Gauguin’s “Sleeping Child”
Muybridge’s horse pictures in “La Nature” (1878)
Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope projector
Laforgue’s “Complaints”
Laforgue’s “Imitation of Our Lady the Moon”
Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”
The Black Cat Café photographs
Rimbaud’s “Les Illuminations”
Rimbaud’s “Motion” (his first free verse poem, 1886)
Whitman’s “Children of Adam”
Whitman’s “Calamus”
Waldeyer’s “neurone doctrine” (in German Medical Weekly, 1891)
Cajal’s “Law of Dynamic Polarization”
Cajal’s “Chemotactic Hypothesis”
Cajal’s “The Structures and Connections of Nerve Cells” (Nobel Prize lecture, 1906)
Golgi’s “The Neuron Doctrine, Theory and Fact” (Nobel Prize lecture, 1906)
Pictures of Laagers in South Africa (1901)
C.P. Scott and John Ellis’s “concentration camps” (1900)
Campbell-Bannerman’s “methods of barbarism”
David Lloyd George’s “policy of extermination”
Mark Twain’s “British war in South Africa is twin of American war in Philippines”
America’s “the water cure” (1901)
German General von Trotha’s “the Annihilation Order”
Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” (1900)
Freud’s “The Dream of Irma’s Injection” (1895)
Freud’s article on cocaine (1884)
Freud’s “Project for a Scientific Psychology” (1895)
Dreyfus case
Emile Zola’s “J’Accuse” (1898)
Paris World’s Fair
Picasso’s “The Last Moments”
The Chat Noir photographs
The Moulin Rouge photographs (Toulouse-Lautrec and la Goulue)
Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu”
Loie Fuller’s “La Loie” (filmed in 1895)
Isadora Duncan
Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past”
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s “Claudine a l’ecole” (1900)
Henri Poincare’s “Celestial Mechanics” (1895)
David Hilbert’s Questions
Debussy’s “Nocturnes” (“Nuages” and “Fetes”) (1900)
Debussy’s “Pelleas” (1893-1902)
Picasso’s “The Burial of Casagemas”
Picasso’s “La Vida”
De Vries’s “The Law of Segregation of Hybrids” (1900)
De Vries’s “Intracellular Pangenesis” (pangenes, 1889)
De Vries’s “The Mutation Theory” (1901)
Kirchhoff’s “black body” equation
Planck’s constant
Russell’s “The Principles of Mathematics” (Russell’s Paradox, 1901)
Husserl’s “Logical Investigations” (2902)
Husserl’s “The Theory of Whole and Parts”
Berkeley’s “Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge” (1710)
Husserl’s “Elements of a Phenomenological Elucidation of Knowledge” (1901)
Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Being an Nothingness”
Porter’s “The Story of an American Fireman”
Melies’s “L’Affaire Dreyfus”
Porter’s “The Great Train Robbery”
Andrew B. Sterling and Kerry Mills’s “Meet Me in Saint Louis”
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
Twain’s “Huck Finn’s autobiography”
T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Frank Kupka’s nonobjective art
W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues”
Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag”
Joplin’s “A Guest of Honor”
Joplin’s “Cascades”
Poincare’s “Celestial Mechanics”
Einstein’s “On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light”
Einstein’s Photoelectric Paper
Einstein’s “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies” (special relativity paper)
Poincare’s “The Measure of Time”
Einstein’s “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy-Content?” (E=mc2)
Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
Picasso’s The Actor
Picasso’s Young Girl with a Basket of Flowers
Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon
Cezanne’s Large Bathers
Matisse’s Blue Nude and Joie de vivre
Derain’s Bathers
Vlaminck’s Bathers
Grecos’ Vision of Saint John
Ingres’s Turkish Bath
Vauxcelles’s review of the 1905 Autumn Salon (fauves)
Braque’s cubist work
Strindberg’s Dream Play
Strindberg’s Master Olof
Strindberg’s Miss Julie
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
Strindberg’s Getting Married
Strindberg’s Inferno
Maeterlinck’s Pelleas et Melisande
Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand
Debussy’s Prelude to the afternoon of a faun
Faure’s Prometheus
Ive’s The Housatonic at Stockbridge from Three Places in New England
Von Tilzer brother’s “Take me out to the ball game”
Berlin’s “Alexander Ragtime Band”
Schoenberg’s String Quartet #1 in D Minor
Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce’s Dubliners
Moore’s The Lake
Joyce’s Stephen Hero
Joyce’s Ulysses
Kandinsky’s Reminiscences
Kandinsky’s “Impressions,” “Improvisations,” “Compositions”
Kandinsky’s Composition IV
Kandinsky’s Composition V
Kandinsky’s On the Spiritual in Art
Schoenberg’s String Quartet #2
Kandinsky’s Picture with a circle (first abstract watercolor, relabeled Study for Composition VII)
Kupka’s The First Step
Kupka’s Girl with a Ball
Kupka’s Amorpha
Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase
Delaunay’s Windows
Dove’s Six Abstractions
Ciurlionis’ Sonata of the Stars, Andante
Ciurlionis’ Sonata of the Sea, Allegro
Mondrian’s Ginger Pot
Mondrian’s Composition no. 7
Bilhaud’s Negroes Wrestling in a Cave at Night
Boronali’s And the Sun Dozed Off over the Adriatic
Allais’s Drunkards Dancing in a Fog
Malevich’s Black Square
Blaue Reiter’s The yellow sound (Der gelbe Klang, a symbolist-expressionist play)
Blue Rider Almanac
Victory Over the Sun
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Kafka’s Amerika
Woolf’s The Voyage Out
Richardson’s Pointed Roofs
Joyce’s Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man
Akhmatov’s Evening
Mayreder’s article “Sex and
Culture”
Sieczynski’s anthem for Vienna
“Wien, Du Stadt meiner Traume” (Vienna, city of my dreams)
Freud’s Totem und Tabu
Russell and Whitehead’s Principia
Mathematica
Armory Show reviews
Manet’s Bullfight
Duchamp’s Nu descendant un escalier
Apollinaire’s poem “Les
Fenetres”
Apollinaire’s Les Peintres Cubistes (The Cubist Painters)
Apollinaire’s Alcools (Liquors)
Apollinaire’s “Zone”
Reviews of Rite of Spring: from Comoedia,
Le Figaro
Irving Berlin’s The
International Rag
WC Handy’s “Jogo Blues” or
“The Memphis Itch”
Handy’s “Memphis Blues”
Handy’s “St. Louis Blues”
Jelly Roll Morton’s “Pretty
Baby”
Perrin’s Atoms
Mach’s “hypothesis of the
relativity of inertia”
Bohr’s “The Trilogy”
Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Victory Over the Sun
Jarry’s King Ubu
Manet’s Bar at the Folies Bergere
Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles
Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’herbe
