A Detailed plan For a 5 or 6 volume (Texts + Critical Apparatus for each volume: total 10 or 12 book) series of books on the

theme: MARX AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES. Texts: Marxs notes and excerpts on the natural sciences ; Critical Apparatus: whatever will be necessary to make the texts intelligible and transparent, for instance: notes, description of the source texts used by Marx, their contexts etc.

This series is to be based on a study of: A. the already published: MEGA I/1, 2, 26; II/1-15; III/ all the letters indicating study and use of the natural sciences; IV/1, 69, 26, 31and, 32 [of these, I have read only IV/ 31in the original]; PLUS B. some Texts used/listed by Marx (T); C. Marxs corresponding Notes (N) and Excerpts (E) within the Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels Papers, preserved at the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG), Amsterdam: <http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/m/10760604full.php> and,
<http://www.iisg.nl/archives/pdf/10760604.pdf>;

[and, also at the: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), Berlin; Rossiiskii gosudarstvenny arkhiv sotsialno- politicheskoi istorii (RGA) and, Rossiiskii

nezavisimy institute sotsialnykh i natsionalnykh problem (RNI), Moskva]: (N + E): IISG FILE Nos. B1-B168: various page No. (s.) [details below]; [slated to be published in: MEGA IV/10, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, and 30, by 2030]; PLUS Secondary source materials [see: 7. Secondary Literature listed below].

DISCIPLINES 1. Classics/Philosophy

T: Philosophies of Nature of Democritus and Epicurus: Doctoral Dissertation [I have read only in English]; N+E: A1, A2, A3.

T: Aristoteles, Peri Psuches (Latin translation: De Anima): Bk. III, Ch.IX [Movement of Animals possessing all the Senses]; N+E: B1: Notebook I (Nov.-Dec. 1840): 1-14; B2: Notebook II (around Nov.-Dec 1840): 1-7; and, Bk. I [Introduction: on the Nature of Living Things]: 8-12.

T: Descartes, Rene 1701, Opuscula Postuma Physica et Mathematica, Amsterdam: P. And J. Blae; N+E: B 148: 75; B 149: 1-2.

T: Brissot, Jean Pierre 1782, Rescherches Philosophiques; N+E: B 148: 83-90, 81-82, 80, 79, 78, 76-77.

T: Hume, David 1790, Ueber die menshliche Natur, Bd. I, Tl. III u. IV [A Treatise on Human Nature, 1739-40, Bk. I, Part III (Of Knowledge and Probability) and, Part IV (Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy); N+E: B 3: Notebook III (around 1841): 1-17.

T: Leibniz, Diverse Werke; N+E: B 4: Notebook IV (1841): 1-14. T:__1840, Opera Philosophica, Ed. Erdmann, Berlin: S.G. Eichmann; N+E: B 148: 70 and 66; B 149: 3-4 (Briefwechsel mit Clarke). T:__1671, Hypothesis physica nova; N+E: B 149: 2-3.

T: Du Bois Reymond, Emil H. 1871, Das Kaiserreich und der Friede,... Zwei Festreden... Berlin: F. Dummler; N+E: B 148: 74-73; B 149: Notebook CLII (around the end of 1878): 1.

T: Caspari, Otto 1870, Lebniz Philosophie, Beleuchet vom Geschichtspunkt der physikalischen Lehre von Kraft und Stoff..., Leipzig: Voss; N+E: B 148: Notebook CXXXVI (since 6.XII.1878): 72-71.

T: Spinoza, [Brauch] 1670, Tractatus theologico-politicus; N+E: B5: Notebook V (1841): 1-18.

T: Spinoza, [Brauch] 1661-1676, Epistolae(I+II); N+E: B6: Notebook VI (1841): 1-17; B7: Notebook VII (1841): 2-7.

2. Physics T: Mach, Ernst 1872, die Geschichte und die Wurzel des Satzes von der Erhaltung der Arbeit, Praha. N+E: not found so far [see: MEGA IV/32].

T: Poppe, J.H.M. 1830, Die Physik vorzueglich in Anwendung auf Kuenste, Manufakturen..., Tuebingen. N+E: B 51: Notebook LVI (around October 1851): 3-10.

T: __1809, Die Mechanik des XVIII Jahrhunderts und der ersten Jahre des neunzehenten, Pyrmont. [Mentioned in correspondence.] T: Fick, Adolf 1869, Die Naturkraefte in ihrer Wechselbeziehung, Wurzburg: Stahel; N+E: B 127: Notebook CXVI [Marx: Heft IV] (1875-1876): 3-6. T: Hospitalier, Edouard 1881, La physique moderne..., Paris: Corbeil; N+E: B 162: 200-203 [see: MEGA IV/31: 467-473].

T: Tyndall, John 1870, Heat, a mode of motion, London. [See: MEGA IV/32.]

3. Chemistry

In: MEGA IV/31: 5-463.

4. Physiology/Chemistry/Agriculture

T:Burdach, Karl Friedrich 1826-1840, Die Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft, Bd.1-6, Leipzig [see: MEGA IV/3: page 12, line 26]. No excerpts located so far.

T: Liebig, Justus 1842, Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie; N+E: B49: Notebook XLIX.VII (1851): 34-46; B 106: Notebook XCVIII (1865-1866): 63-135. T:__1862, Einleitung in die Naturgesetze des Feldbaus; N+E: B 106: Notebook XCVIII (1865-1866): 29-59. T:__1855, Herr Doctor Emil Wolff in Hohenheim und die Agrikultur-chemie, Braunschweig: F. Vieweg. N+E: B 106: 60-62. T: Mounier, L. 1846, De lagriculture en France; N+E: B 106: 136-183, 188-189, 193-202. T: Maron, H. 1859, Extensiv oder Intensiv?Ein capital aus der landwirthschaftslichen Betriebslehre, Oppeln; N+E: B 106: 184-187, 190-192.

T: Lavergne, Leonce de 1855, The rural economy of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; N+E: B 106: 203-239.

T:__1857, Lagriculture et la population en 1855 et 1856, Paris: Guillaumi. N+E: B 106: 245-241.

T: Schleiden, Mathias J. 1850, Die Physiologie der Pflanzen und Tiere und Theorie der Pflanzenkultur, in: Encyklopaedie der gesammten theoretische Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Anwendung auf der Landwirtschaft, Bd. 3, Hrsg. Mathias J. Schleiden und Ernst E. Schmidt, Braunschweig; N+E: B 130: Notebook CXIX [Marx: Heft A (1876)] (sine March 1876): 4-29, 38-54, 61-82.; B 144: Notebook CXLIII (end of May 1878): 3-8.

T: Ranke, Johannes 1875, Grundzuege des Physiologie des Menschen mit Rucksicht auf die Gesundheitspflege, Leipzig: W. Engelmann; N+E: B 130: 55-59, 64-82; B 131: Notebook CXX [Marx: Heft X, Heft B (1876) April] (April 1876): 3-82; B 132: Notebook CXXI [Marx: Heft XI-Heft C (1876 May)] (May 1876): 3-36.

T: Hermann, Ludimar 1874, Grundriss der Physiologie des Menschen, Berlin; N+E: B 130: 59-60.

5. Geology/Chemistry/Agriculture

MEGA IV/26 contains some of the following:

T: Jacob, William 1831, An historical inquiry into the production and consumption of precious metals; N+E: B44: Notebooks XI-XII (1850): 5-22; B45: Notebook XLII (1850): 32-34, 35-36; B47: Notebook XLVII (1851): 16-19.

T: Morton, John 1838, On the nature and property of soils, London: James Ridgway. N+E: B 55: Notebook XLV (around May 1851): 7-11.

T: London, John C. 1831, An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, London: Longman. N+E: B 59: Notebook LIII (1851): 7.

T: Johnston, James F.W. 1847, Lectures on agricultural chemistry and geology, 2nd ed., Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. N+E: B59: 34-55.

T:__1849, Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology; N+E: B 50: Notebook LV.VII-VIII (1851): 20-27. T:__1851, Notes on North America: Agricultural, Economic and Social, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; N+E: B106: 263-246. T: __1856, Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, Edinburgh; N+E: B 143: 13-19.

T: Hamm, Wilhelm 1856, Die landwirtschaftslichen Geraethe und Maschinen Englands, 2. Ed., Braunschweig; N+E: B 106: 281-264.

T: Evelyn, J. 1676, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth; N+E: B 106: 246-245.

T: Fraas, Karl 1852, Geschichte der Landwirtschaft: Oder geschichtliche Uebersicht der fartschritte landwirthschaftsliche Erkenntnisse in dem letzen 100 Jhare, Praha: Calve; N+E: B 107: Notebook C (1867-1868): 53-75. T:__1857, Die Natur der Landwirtschaft, 2. Bd. Munich; N+E: B 107: 88-132; B 111: Notebook CIV (1868): 3-9, 18-35, 48-59, 89-103.

T:__1847, Klima und Pflanzenwelt in der Zeit: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte beider, Landschut; N+E: B 112: Notebook CXXVIII (1868- 1878): 48-57.

T: Engelhardt, A.N. 1872 a, Voprosy russkovo selskovo khoziyaistva, Otchestvennye Zapiski, Nr.2-3; N+E: B 123: Notebook CXIII (1875): 44-47. T:__1872 b , Khimicheskie osnovy zemledeleniya, Otchestvennye Zapiski, Nr. 2 i 4; N+E: B 123: 47-60; B 129: Notebooks CXVIII [Marx: Heft IV] (1875- 1878): 3-14.

T: Schoedler, Fr. 1852, Das Buch der Natur, die Lehren der Physik, Astronomie, Chemie, Mineralogie..., Braunschweig; N+E: B 143: Notebook CXLII (around May 1878): 2-12, 19-24; B 144: 11-16. T: Yeats, John 1872, The Natural History of the Raw Materials of Commerce, London. N+E: B-138: Notebook CXXVII(20.IV.!876-1878): 56-95. T: Jukes, J. Beete 1872, The Students Manual of Geology, Edinburgh: A. And C. Black; N+E: B 144: 9-10, 17-18[?]; B 145: Notebook CXLI (since June 1878): 3-110, 133-356.

T: Allen, Grant 1880[1881?], Geology and History, Popular Science Monthly, August; N+E: B 161: Notebook CXLV (1880-1881): 14-19.[Adolf Cluss wrote an article in this journal in May 1875, on Modern Street Pavements; see: link below.]

6. Other Related Primary Materials [Mathematics, Philosophy, Technology, Political Economy...]

On: Cluss, Adolf (1825-1905): Communist, Architect, correspondent and friend of Marx, builder of much of post civil war Washington, DC [not discussed in Kedrov i Ogurtsov 1978]: Ochs, Haila und Sabina Wiedenhoeft 2002, Einsichten in die amerikanische Gastgesellschaft: Die Briefe des Architekten Adolf Cluss, in: Politische Netzwerke durch BriefKommunikation: Briefkultur der politischen Oppositionsbewegungen und fruehen Arbeiterbewegungen im 19.Jahrhundert: S.177-91, Hrsg. Juergen Herres und Manfred Neuhaus, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.[I have the book.] <http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/c/10779978.php>
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/letters/52_12_07.htm> <https://flexfiles.stimme.net/adolfcluss.org/admin/_upl_/Presseinformationen/Adolf_Cluss_Eastern_Market_July_23_ Event.pdf>

<http://www.adolf-cluss.org/>,
<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_7/May_1875/Mo dern_Street-Pavements>

<http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/pro/vtour/dc1/clussbio.htm> <http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/bu/036/36.122.pdf> <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly>: an American popular science journal where Adolf Cluss wrote; secondary material for getting a feel of the period.

T:Franz, Constantin 1842, Die Philosophie der Mathemaik: Zuglich ein Beitrag zur Logik und Naturphilosophie, Leipzig: Hermann Hartung [see: MEGA IV/3: page 7, line 29]. It is, reportedly, the first Hegelian treatment of mathematics. No excerpts located so far. Discussed in: Szigeti, Jozsef 1999[see: review of MEGA IV/3, in NST, 2001, Vol. 14, No. 3: 267].

N+E: A 55: Ueber Wissenschaft und Kapitalismus, Vorarbeit zum Kapital (1863): pages?

T: Gaskell, P. 1836, Artisans and machinery...; N+E: B48: Notebook XLIII.VII (1851): 43-47; B49: Notebook XLIX. VII (1851): 3-5.

T: Poppe, J.H.M. 1809, Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Technologie, Frankfurt/M. N+E: B 51: Notebook LVI (around October 1851): 1-3 T: __ 1807-1811, Geschichte der Technologie seit der Wiederherstellung der Wissenschafter bis an des Ende

achtzenten Jahrhunderts, 3 Bde., Goettingen: Johann Friedrich Roewer. N+E: B 51: 11-37; B75: NOTEBOOK LXXIX (1854-1856): 25; B 76A: 3.

T: Ure, Andrew 1843-44, Technisches Woerterbuch..., 3 Bde., Prague: G. Hasse [Tr. of Ures Dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines...]. N+E: B51: 37-44.

T: Beckmann, J. 1780-1805, Beitraege zur Geschichte der Erfindungen, Leipzig: P.G.Kummer. N+E: B51: 44.

T: Marx, Karl 1981, Die technologisch-historischen Exzerpte: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, Frankfurt/M.: Ullstein.[I have not read.] T: __1982, Exzerpte ueber Arbetsteilung. Maschinerie und Industrie, Berlin: Ullstein.[I have not read.] T: __1994, Mathematical Manuscripts, Ed. and Tr. Pradip Baksi; Kolkata (Calcutta): Viswakos.

7. Secondary Literature

Philosophical writings of 20th century Marxists who were unaware of Marxs natural science studies: Lenin, Bukharin [I have not read], Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Gramsci, Lukacs, Althusser... Kedrov, Bonifati mikhailovich i Aleksandr Pavlovich Ogurtsov 1985,

Literature and persons covered [and not covered] in: Werskey, Gary 2007, The Marxist Critique of Capitalist Science: A History in Three Movements?, Science as Culture; Available at: <http://www.human-nature.com/science-as-culture/werskey.html>.
AND NOT COVERED IN: Science, Technology, Medicine and the Socialist Movement by The Radical Science Journal Collective; available at: <http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap100h.html> The Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science: <http://www.bu.edu/cphs/index.html> <http://www.springer.com/series/5710> [I have read some of the volumes, containing relevant materials for the proposed book series, for instance, on Dirk Jan Struik.]

Wartofskys study on Feuerbach:

<http://books.google.com/books?id=Wng6AAAAIAAJ&dq> [I have not read.]

I DO NOT READ FRENCH, ITALIAN, SPANISH AND, PORTUGUESE. THE SECONDARY LITERATURE IN THESE LANGUAGES, AS WELL AS IN THE LANGUAGES OF EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA,ARABIC, PERSIAN, CHINESE, JAPANESE, KOREAN, VIETNAMESE and, AFRIKAANS LANGUAGES should also be looked up, IF POSSIBLE.

I pledge to help anyone from any part of the world, who would like to write, edit and/or publish these materials in any language of the world, in all necessary and possible ways. Pradip Baksi <pradipbaksi@gmail.com> Kolkata 11February 2012