/sci/ - Science & Math

Is there any point to studying the firsthand accounts of so many famous discoveries in maths and science?
Things like
>Newton's Principia
>Euclid's Elements
>Archimedes
>Copernicus' Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
>Kepler's Harmonies of the World
>Galileo's New Sciences
>Pascal's Mathematical Essays
>Huygen's Treatise on Light
>Faraday's Research into Electricity
>Fourier's Analytical Theory of Heat
>Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry
>Poincare's Science and Hypothesis
>Plank's Scientific Autobiography
>Einstein's Relativity
>Bohr's Atomic Theory
etc

Or are these all obsolete in favour of a basic introductory mathematics/science textbook?

>Newton
>Solely focused on his work, never married.
>Hated people
>“Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them.”
>Ran the Royal Mint and had forgers executed.
>Risked stabbing his eyeball to do science.