Great books of the Western World / Mortimer J. Adler, editor

En esta ficha, vol. 1-38

1 . The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas I -- 2 . The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas II -- 3 . The Iliad and the Odissey of Homer -- 4 . Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes -- 5 . The History of Herodotus. The history of the peloponnesian war / Thucydydes -- 6 . The dialogues of Plato. The seventh letter -- 7 . The works of Aristotle I -- 8 . The works of Aristotle I -- 9 . Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10 . The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including The method. Introduction to arithmetic by Nicomachus -- 11 . The way things are / Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six enneads / Plotinus -- 12 . The eclogues ; The georgics ; The aeneid / Virgil -- 13 . The lives of the noble grecians and romans / Plutarch ; the Dryden translation -- 14 . The annals and the histories / Tacitus -- 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 -- 16 . The confessions ; The city of God ; On christian doctrine / Saint Augustine -- 17 . The summa theologica I / Saint Thomas Aquinas ; translated by Laurence Shapcote -- 18 . The summa theologica II / Saint Thomas Aquinas ; translated by Laurence Shapcote -- 19 . The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- 20 . Institutes of the Christian Religion / John Calvin ; translated by Henry Beveridge -- 21 . The prince / Nicolo Machiavelli. Leviathan or, matter, form, and power of a common wealth ecclesiastical and civil / Thomas Hobbesa -- 22 . Gargantua and Pantagruel / François Rabelais -- 23 . Praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- 24 . The plays and sonnets I / William Shakespeare ; edited by William George Clarke and William Aldis Wright -- 25 . The plays and sonnets II / William Shakespeare ; edited by William George Clarke and William Aldis Wright -- 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 -- 27 . The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes -- 28 . Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New atlantis / sir Francis Bacon. Rule for the direction of mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry / René Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza -- 29 . English minor poems ; Paradise lost ; Samson agonistes ; Areopagitica / John Milton -- 30 . The provincial letters ; Pensées ; Scientific treatises / Blaise Pascal - 31 . The school for wives ; The critique of the school for wives ; Tartuffe ; Don Juan ; The miser ; The would-be gentleman ; The would-be invalid / Molière. Berenice ; Phaedra / Jean Racine -- 32 . Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics / sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / Christiaan Huygens -- 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 -- 34 . Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift. Candide / Voltaire. Rameau's nephew / Denis Diderot -- 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 -- 36 . An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- 37 . The decline and fall of the Roman Empire I / Edward Gibbon -- 38 . The decline and fall of the Roman Empire II / Edward Gibbon