The complete works of Charles Darwin are now online.

I've had his books on my wish list ever since I heard an egghead praise Darwin's writing style as almost poetry.

Darwin does write quite well. Probably one of the most eloquent scientists I've read, though I've only read some of his letters and never any of his major works.

That is very cool, though, I shall definitely bookmark that at home.

looks like i have some reading to do.

Great post, thanks for the heads-up. And kudos for whomever put it together... is it Cambridge University?

I saw someone opining the other day that the Constitution should be rewritten in "today's language". That was an awful idea. People used to write (even technical and legal) documents so that they would be pleasant to read - they wrote works of art, even if they were just personal letters an memos.

I just finished George Boole's Investigation of the Laws of Thought (His seminal work on what came to be called Boolean Algebra) and although some of the math has been very beneficially improved on, his writing done so with the intention of being read.

Have you all found Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.com) yet?