Great books of the Western world
| Other Authors: | Goetz, Philip W, Adler, Mortimer Jerome, Fadiman, Clifton |
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.,
1990.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas.
- v. 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes.
- v. 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides.
- v. 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen.
- v. 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus.
- v. 11. The way things are / Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six Enneads / Plotinus.
- v. 15. The almagest / Ptolemy. On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus. Epitome of Copernican astronomy, IV-V ; The harmonies of the world, V / Johannes Kepler.
- v. 19. The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer.
- v. 21. The prince / Nicolo' Machiavelli. Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil / Thomas Hobbes.
- v. 23. Praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
- v. 26. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / William Gilbert. Concerning the two new sciences / Galileo Galilei. On the motion of the heart and blood in animals ; On the circulation of the blood ; On the generation of animals / William Harvey.
- v. 28. Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon. Rules for the direction of the mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry / Rene' Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza.
- v. 31. The school for wives ; The critique of the School for wives ; Tartuffe ; Don Juan ; The miser ; The world-be gentleman ; The would-be invalid / Molie're. Berenice ; Phaedra / Jean Racine.
- v. 32. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics / Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / Christiaan Huygens.
- v. 33. A letter concerning toleration ; Concerning civil government, second essay ; An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke. The principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley. An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume.
- v. 34. Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift. Candide / Voltaire. Rameau?s nephew / Denis Diderot
- v. 35. The spirit of laws / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. On the origin of inequality ; On political economy ; The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau.
- v. 40. American state papers. The federalist / by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. On liberty ; Representative government ; Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill.
- v. 42. Elements of chemistry / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday.
- v. 43. The philosophy of right ; The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Fear and trembling / S'ren Kierkegaard. Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche.
- v. 45. Faust. Parts one and two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cousin Bette / Honore? de Balzac.
- v. 46. Emma / Jane Austen. Middlemarch / George Eliot.
- v. 48. Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain.
- v. 52. The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A doll's house ; The wild duck ; Hedda Gabler ; The master builder / Henrik Ibsen.
- v. 55. William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth.
- v. 56. Henri Poincare', Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G.H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schro'dinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C.H. Waddington.
- v. 57. Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes.
- v. 58. Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Levi-Strauss.
- v. 59.