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Great books of the Western World, 53 volumes : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago /

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Corporate Authors: Encyclopaedia Britannica, University of Chicago
Other Authors: Hutchins, Robert Maynard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : William Benton, 1952.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins
  • 2-3. The great ideas
  • 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey
  • 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.