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54 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
This set is a gift of William R. Hagman, Jr. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
v. 1. Great conversation : the substance of a liberal education / R. M. Hutchins -- v. 2-3. Great ideas : a syntopicon of Great books of the western world / Mortimer J. Adler, William Gorman -- v. 4. Iliad of Homer and The Odyssey / Homer -- v. 5. Aeschylus : Sophocles : Euripides : Aristophanes / Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- v. 6. History of Herodotus ; History of the Peloponnesian war / Herodotus, Thucydides -- v. 7. Dialogues of Plato / Plato -- v. 8-9. Works of Aristotle / Aristotle -- v. 10. Hippocratic writings ; On the natural faculties / Hippocrates, Galen. |
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v. 11. Thirteen books of Euclid's elements ; Works of Archimedes, including The method ; On conic sections ; Introduction to arithmetic / Euclid, Archimedes, Appollonius of Perga, Nicomachus -- v. 12. Lucretius : on the nature of things ; Discourses of Epictetus ; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius / Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius -- v. 13. Poems of Virgil / Virgil -- v. 14. Lives of the noble Greeks and Romans / Plutarch -- v. 15. Annals : and The histories / Tacitus -- v. 16. Almagest ; On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres ; Epitome of Copernican astronomy ; Harmonies of the world / Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler -- v. 17. Six Enneads / Plotinus -- v. 18. Confessions ; City of God ; On Christian doctrine / Augustine -- v. 19-20. Summa theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas / Thomas Aquinas. |
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v. 21. Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri / Dante -- v. 22. Troilus and Cressida : and The Canterbury tales / Chaucer -- v. 23. Prince ; Leviathan / Machiavelli, Hobbes -- v. 24. Gargantua and Panagruel / Rabelais -- v. 25. Essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne / Montaigne -- v. 26-27. Plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare / Shakespeare -- v. 28. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies ; Concerning the two new sciences ; On the motion of the heart and blood ; On the circulation of the blood ; On the generation of animals / Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey -- v. 29. History of Don Quixote de la Mancha / Cervantes. |
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v. 30. Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New atlantis / Francis Bacon -- v. 31. Rules for the direction of the mind ; Ethics / Descartes, Spinoza -- v. 32. Paradise Lost ; Samson agonistes ; Areopagitica / John Milton -- v. 33. Provincial letters ; Pensees ; Scientific treatises / Pascal -- v. 34. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics ; Treatise on light / Newton, Huygens -- v. 35. Letter concerning toleration ; Concerning civil government, second essay ; Essay concerning human understanding ; Principles of human knowledge ; Enquiry concerning human understanding / Locke, Berkeley, Hume -- v. 36. Gulliver's travels ; Tristram Shandy / Swift, Sterne -- v. 37. History of Tom Jones, a foundling / Henry Fielding -- v. 38. Spirit of laws ; On the origin of inequality / Montesquieu, Rousseau -- v. 39. Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith. |
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v. 40-41. Decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Gibbon -- v. 42. Critique of pure reason ; Critique of practical reason ; Critique of judgement / Kant -- v. 43. American state papers ; Federalist ; On liberty ; Representative government ; Utilitarianism / J. S. Mill -- v. 44. Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / Boswell -- v. 45. Elements of chemistry ; Analytical theory of heat ; Experimental researches in electricity / Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday -- v. 46. Philosophy of right ; Philosophy of history / Hegel -- v. 47. Faust / Goethe -- v. 48. Moby Dick / Melville -- v. 49. Origin of species / Darwin -- v. 50. Capital / Marx -- v. 51. War and peace / Tolstoy -- v. 52. Brothers Karamazov / Dostoevsky -- v. 53. Principles of psychology / William James -- v. 54. Major works of Sigmund Freud / Freud. |
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.
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University of Chicago.
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