What hidden gems can be found on archive.org for physics enthusiasts?

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In summary, the speaker discusses their discovery of a valuable physics text on archive.org and their desire to find other hidden gems on the website. The possibility of books and papers being removed from the site adds urgency to their search. They also mention their interest in obtaining a copy of Isaac Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" and suggest purchasing it from a secondhand bookseller or scanning it into a PDF.
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I've recently come across a pretty excellent text on archive.org -- http://www.archive.org/details/IntroductionToTensorsSpinorsRelativisticWaveEquations (I liked it so much I bought a copy on Amazon) -- which got me thinking: what else is on there that I've been missing out on?

The fact that it was confirmed in another thread here that papers / books are sometimes removed (for example, virtually everything by Dirac) gives this a a special urgency for me.

So -- what are your favorite (physics) finds on archive.org?
 
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arildno said:
You could, of course, buy it at abebooks, so that you can scribble notes and important latin words in its margin..

..or, you could take it to Kinko's, have them cut the binding and scan it into a PDF.
 

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