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Great books of the Western World: Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago
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From the Book - Founders' ed.
1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.
2-3. The great ideas.
4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.
5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.
6. Herodotus. Thucydides.
7. Plato.
8-9. Aristotle.
10. Hippocrates. Galen.
11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.
12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.
13. Virgil.
14. Plutarch.
15. Tacitus.
16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.
17. Plotinus.
18. Augustine.
19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.
21. Dante.
22. Chaucer.
23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.
24. Rabelais.
25. Montaigne.
26-27. Shakespeare.
28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.
29. Cervantes.
30. Francis Bacon.
31. Descartes. Spinoza.
32. John Milton.
33. Pascal.
34. Newton. Huygens.
35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.
36. Swift. Sterne.
37. Henry Fielding.
38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.
39. Adam Smith.
40-41. Gibbon.
42. Kant.
43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill.
44. Boswell.
45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.
46. Hegel.
47. Goethe.
48. Melville.
49. Darwin.
50. Marx.
51. Tolstoy.
52. Dostoevsky.
53. William James.
54. Freud.
From the Book - Founders' ed.
1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.
2-3. The great ideas.
4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.
5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.
6. Herodotus. Thucydides.
7. Plato.
8-9. Aristotle.
10. Hippocrates. Galen.
11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.
12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.
13. Virgil.
14. Plutarch.
15. Tacitus.
16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.
17. Plotinus.
18. Augustine.
19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.
21. Dante.
22. Chaucer.
23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.
24. Rabelais.
25. Montaigne.
26-27. Shakespeare.
28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.
29. Cervantes.
30. Francis Bacon.
31. Descartes. Spinoza.
32. John Milton.
33. Pascal.
34. Newton. Huygens.
35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.
36. Swift. Sterne.
37. Henry Fielding.
38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.
39. Adam Smith.
40-41. Gibbon.
42. Kant.
43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill.
44. Boswell.
45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.
46. Hegel.
47. Goethe.
48. Melville.
49. Darwin.
50. Marx.
51. Tolstoy.
52. Dostoevsky.
53. William James.
54. Freud.
From the Book - Founders' ed.
v.1. The great conversation / by R.M. Hutchins. --
v.2-3. The great ideas. --
v.4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey. --
v.5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes. --
v.6. Herodotus. Thucydides. --
v.7. Plato. --
v.8-9. Aristotle. --
v.10. Hippocrates. Galen. --
v.11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus. --
v.12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. --
v.13. Virgil. --
v.14. Plutarch. --
v.15. Tacitus. --
v.16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler. --
v.17. Plotinus. --
v.18. Augustine. --
v.19-20. Thomas Aquinas. --
v.21. Dante. --
v.22. Chaucer. --
v.23. Machiavelli. Hobbes. --
v.24. Rabelais. --
v.25. Montaigne. --
v.26-27. Shakespeare. --
v.28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey. --
v.29. Cervantes. --
v.30. Francis Bacon. --
v.31. Descartes. Spinoza. --
v.32. John Milton. --
v.33. Pascal. --
v.34. Newton. Huygens. --
v.35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume. --
v.36. Swift. Sterne. --
v.37. Henry Fielding. --
v.38. Montesquieu. Rousseau. --
v.39. Adam Smith. --
v.40-41. Gibbon. --
v.42. Kant. --
v.43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill. --
v.44. Boswell. --
v.45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday. --
v.46. Hegel. --
v.47. Goethe. --
v.48. Melville. --
v.49. Darwin. --
v.50. Marx. --
v.51. Tolstoy. --
v.52. Dostoevsky. --
v.53. William James. --
v.54. Freud.
From the Book - Founders' ed.
v.1. The great conversation / by R.M. Hutchins. --
v.2-3. The great ideas. --
v.4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey. --
v.5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes. --
v.6. Herodotus. Thucydides. --
v.7. Plato. --
v.8-9. Aristotle. --
v.10. Hippocrates. Galen. --
v.11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus. --
v.12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. --
v.13. Virgil. --
v.14. Plutarch. --
v.15. Tacitus. --
v.16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler. --
v.17. Plotinus. --
v.18. Augustine. --
v.19-20. Thomas Aquinas. --
v.21. Dante. --
v.22. Chaucer. --
v.23. Machiavelli. Hobbes. --
v.24. Rabelais. --
v.25. Montaigne. --
v.26-27. Shakespeare. --
v.28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey. --
v.29. Cervantes. --
v.30. Francis Bacon. --
v.31. Descartes. Spinoza. --
v.32. John Milton. --
v.33. Pascal. --
v.34. Newton. Huygens. --
v.35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume. --
v.36. Swift. Sterne. --
v.37. Henry Fielding. --
v.38. Montesquieu. Rousseau. --
v.39. Adam Smith. --
v.40-41. Gibbon. --
v.42. Kant. --
v.43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill. --
v.44. Boswell. --
v.45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday. --
v.46. Hegel. --
v.47. Goethe. --
v.48. Melville. --
v.49. Darwin. --
v.50. Marx. --
v.51. Tolstoy. --
v.52. Dostoevsky. --
v.53. William James. --
v.54. Freud.
From the Book - Founders' ed.
v.1. The great conversation / by R.M. Hutchins. --
v.2-3. The great ideas. --
v.4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey. --
v.5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes. --
v.6. Herodotus. Thucydides. --
v.7. Plato. --
v.8-9. Aristotle. --
v.10. Hippocrates. Galen. --
v.11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus. --
v.12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. --
v.13. Virgil. --
v.14. Plutarch. --
v.15. Tacitus. --
v.16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler. --
v.17. Plotinus. --
v.18. Augustine. --
v.19-20. Thomas Aquinas. --
v.21. Dante. --
v.22. Chaucer. --
v.23. Machiavelli. Hobbes. --
v.24. Rabelais. --
v.25. Montaigne. --
v.26-27. Shakespeare. --
v.28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey. --
v.29. Cervantes. --
v.30. Francis Bacon. --
v.31. Descartes. Spinoza. --
v.32. John Milton. --
v.33. Pascal. --
v.34. Newton. Huygens. --
v.35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume. --
v.36. Swift. Sterne. --
v.37. Henry Fielding. --
v.38. Montesquieu. Rousseau. --
v.39. Adam Smith. --
v.40-41. Gibbon. --
v.42. Kant. --
v.43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill. --
v.44. Boswell. --
v.45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday. --
v.46. Hegel. --
v.47. Goethe. --
v.48. Melville. --
v.49. Darwin. --
v.50. Marx. --
v.51. Tolstoy. --
v.52. Dostoevsky. --
v.53. William James. --
v.54. Freud.
From the Reference - Founders' ed.
1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.
2-3. The great ideas.
4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.
5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.
6. Herodotus. Thucydides.
7. Plato.
8-9. Aristotle.
10. Hippocrates. Galen.
11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.
12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.
13. Virgil.
14. Plutarch.
15. Tacitus.
16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.
17. Plotinus.
18. Augustine.
19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.
21. Dante.
22. Chaucer.
23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.
24. Rabelais.
25. Montaigne.
26-27. Shakespeare.
28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.
29. Cervantes.
30. Francis Bacon.
31. Descartes. Spinoza.
32. John Milton.
33. Pascal.
34. Newton. Huygens.
35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.
36. Swift. Sterne.
37. Henry Fielding.
38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.
39. Adam Smith.
40-41. Gibbon.
42. Kant.
43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill.
44. Boswell.
45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.
46. Hegel.
47. Goethe.
48. Melville.
49. Darwin.
50. Marx.
51. Tolstoy.
52. Dostoevsky.
53. William James.
54. Freud.
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Aeschylus
Apollonius of Perga
Archimedes
Aristophanes
Augustine,Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Apollonius of Perga
Archimedes
Aristophanes
Augustine,Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Bacon, Francis,1561-1626
Berkeley, George,1685-1753
Boswell, James,1740-1795
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,1547-1616
Chaucer, Geoffrey,d.1400
Copernicus, Nicolaus,1473-1543
Dante, Alighieri,1265-1321
Darwin, Charles,1809-1882
Descartes, René,1596-1650
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881
Encyclopaedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc
Engels, Friedrich,1820-1895
Epictetus
Euclid
Euripides
Faraday, Michael,1791-1867
Fielding, Henry,1707-1754
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph,baron,1768-1830
Freud, Sigmond,1856-1939
Galen
Galilei, Galileo,1564-1642
Gibbon, Edward,1737-1794
Gilbert, William,1540-1603
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,1749-1832
Hamilton, Alexander,1757-1804
Harvey, William,1578-1657
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,1770-1831
Herodotus
Hippocrates
Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679
Homer
Hume, David,1711-1776
Hutchins, Robert Maynard,1899- ed
Hutchins, Robert Maynard,1899-1977
Huygens, Christiaan,1629-1695
James, William,1842-1910
Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804
Kepler, Johannes,1571-1630
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent,1743-1794
Locke, John,1632-1704
Lucretius
Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527
Marcus AureliusEmperor of Rome121-180
Marx, Karl,1818-1883
Melville, Herman,1819-1891
Mill, John Stuart,1806-1873
Milton, John,1608-1674
Montaigne, Michel de,1533-1592
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat,baron de,1689-1755
Newton, Isaac,Sir,1642-1727
Nichomachus of Gerasa
Pascal, Blaise,1623-1662
Plato
Plotinus
Plutarch
Ptolemy,fl. 2nd cent
Rabelais, François,ca. 1490-1553?
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616
Smith, Adam,1723-1790
Sophocles
Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677
Sterne, Laurence,1713-1768
Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745
Tacitus, Cornelius
Thomas,Aquinas, Saint,1225?-1274
Thucydides
Tolstoy, Leo,graf,1828-1910
University of Chicago
Virgil
Berkeley, George,1685-1753
Boswell, James,1740-1795
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,1547-1616
Chaucer, Geoffrey,d.1400
Copernicus, Nicolaus,1473-1543
Dante, Alighieri,1265-1321
Darwin, Charles,1809-1882
Descartes, René,1596-1650
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881
Encyclopaedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc
Engels, Friedrich,1820-1895
Epictetus
Euclid
Euripides
Faraday, Michael,1791-1867
Fielding, Henry,1707-1754
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph,baron,1768-1830
Freud, Sigmond,1856-1939
Galen
Galilei, Galileo,1564-1642
Gibbon, Edward,1737-1794
Gilbert, William,1540-1603
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,1749-1832
Hamilton, Alexander,1757-1804
Harvey, William,1578-1657
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,1770-1831
Herodotus
Hippocrates
Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679
Homer
Hume, David,1711-1776
Hutchins, Robert Maynard,1899- ed
Hutchins, Robert Maynard,1899-1977
Huygens, Christiaan,1629-1695
James, William,1842-1910
Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804
Kepler, Johannes,1571-1630
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent,1743-1794
Locke, John,1632-1704
Lucretius
Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527
Marcus AureliusEmperor of Rome121-180
Marx, Karl,1818-1883
Melville, Herman,1819-1891
Mill, John Stuart,1806-1873
Milton, John,1608-1674
Montaigne, Michel de,1533-1592
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat,baron de,1689-1755
Newton, Isaac,Sir,1642-1727
Nichomachus of Gerasa
Pascal, Blaise,1623-1662
Plato
Plotinus
Plutarch
Ptolemy,fl. 2nd cent
Rabelais, François,ca. 1490-1553?
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616
Smith, Adam,1723-1790
Sophocles
Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677
Sterne, Laurence,1713-1768
Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745
Tacitus, Cornelius
Thomas,Aquinas, Saint,1225?-1274
Thucydides
Tolstoy, Leo,graf,1828-1910
University of Chicago
Virgil
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