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Title:
Great books of the Western world. Volume 1-12, 14-18, 20-22, 26-30
ISBN:
9780852295311
Uniform Title:
Synctopicon : an index to the great ideas
Edition:
[second edition].
Publication Information:
[Chicago] : [Encyclopaedia Britannica], [c1990]
Physical Description:
28 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24-24 x 31 cm.
Subject Term:
Anthologies.
Added Author:
Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001

Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.

Goetz, Philip W.

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Account of the great experiment concerning the equilibrium of fluids.

Aristophanes Acharnians

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 Advancement of learning.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Correspondence with Fermat on the theory of probabilities.

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180 Meditations.

Nicomachus, of Gerasa. Introduction to arithmetic.

Virgil Aeneid.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 Against do-nothingness.

Aeschylus. Agamemnon.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 New experiments concerning the vacuum.

Sophocles Ajax.

Euripides. Alcestis.

Ptolemy, active 2nd century Almagest.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.

Euripides Andromache.

Tacitus, Cornelius Annals of Imperial Rome.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Another on the same.

Sophocles. Antigone.

Hippocrates. Aphorisms.

Plato. Apology.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Arcades.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Areopagitica.

Washington, George, 1732-1799 Articles of confederation.

Aristophanes Assemblywomen.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 At a solemn musick.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 At a vacation exercise.

Aristotle Athenian constitution.

Euripides Bacchae.

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 Berenice.

Aristophanes Birds.

Archimedes. Book of lemmas.

Hippocrates. Book of prognostics.

Aristotle Categories.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 City of God.

Aristophanes Clouds.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Comus.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 Confessions.

Plato. Cratylus.

Plato. Critias.

Molière, 1622-1673 Critique of the school for wives.

Plato. Crito.

Euripides Cyclops.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Declaration of independence.

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 Democracy in America.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Dialogues concerning the two new sciences.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650 Discourse on the method.

Epictetus Discourses.

Molière, 1622-1673 Don Juan.

Virgil Eclogues.

Euripides Electra.

Sophocles. Electra.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 English minor poems.

Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 Epitome of Copernican astronomy, books IV-V.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 Ethics.

Aeschylus Eumenides.

Plato. Euthydemus.

Plato. Euthyphro.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 Fear and trembling.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Fifth ode of Horace. Lib.I.

Aristophanes. Frogs.

Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553? Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650 Geometry.

Virgil Georgics.

Plato. Gorgias.

Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 Harmonies of the world: Book V.

Euripides Hecuba.

Euripides Helen.

Euripides Heracleidae.

Euripides Heracles.

Euripides Hippolytus.

Tacitus, Cornelius Histories.

Herodotus. History.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 History of Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War.

Aristotle History of Animals.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Hymn.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Penseroso.

Homer. Iliad.

Homer. Odyssey.

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 Institutes of the Christian religiion.

Hippocrates. Instruments of reduction.

Euripides Ion.

Plato. Ion.

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis.

Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris.

Aristophanes Knights.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 L'allegro.

Plato. Laches.

Hippocrates. Law.

Plato. Laws.

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth ecclesiastical and civil.

Aeschylus Libation bearers.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Lycidas.

Plato. Lysis.

Aristophanes Lysistrata.

Archimedes. Measurement of a circle.

Euripides. Medea.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650 Meditations on first philosophy.

Plato. Meno.

Aristotle Meteorology.

Archimedes. Method treating of mechanical problems.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Metamorphosis.

Molière, 1622-1673 Miser.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 New Atlantis.

Aristotle Nicomachean ethics.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 Novum organum.

Hippocrates. Oath.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650 Objections against the meditations and replies.

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus.

Sophocles Oedipus the King.

Hippocrates. On Airs, waters, and places.

Hippocrates. On ancient medicine.

Hippocrates. On fistulae.

Hippocrates. On fractures.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 On Christian doctrine.

Archimedes. On conoids and spheroids.

Aristotle On dreams.

Archimedes. On floating bodies.

Aristotle On generation and corruption.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 On geometrical demonstration.

Hippocrates. On hemorrhoids.

Hippocrates. On injuries of the head.

Aristotle On interpretation.

Aristotle On longevity and shortness of life.

Aristotle On memory and reminiscence.

Aristotle On poetics.

Aristotle On prophesying by dreams.

Hippocrates. On regimen in acute diseases.

Aristotle On sense and the sensible.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 On Shakespear, 1630.

Aristotle On sleep and sleeplessness.

Aristotle On sophistical refutations.

Archimedes. On spirals.

Hippocrates. On the articulations.

Harvey, William, 1578-1657 On the circulation of the blood.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 On the death of a fair infant.

Archimedes. On the equilibrium of planes.

Aristotle On the gait of animals.

Aristotle On the generation of animals.

Harvey, William 1578-1657 On the generation of animals.

Aristotle On the heavens.

Gilbert, William, 1544-1603 On the loadstone and magnetic bodies.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 On the Lord General Fairfax at the siege of Colchester.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 On the morning of Christ's nativity.

Aristotle On the motion of animals.

Harvey, William, 1578-1657 On the motion of the heart and blood in animals.

Galen. On the natural faculties.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 On the new forcers of conscience under the Long Parliament.

Aristotle On the parts of animals.

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.

Hippocrates. On the sacred disease.

Aristotle On the soul.

Archimedes. On the sphere and cylinder.

Hippocrates. On the surgery.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 On the university carrier.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 On time.700

Hippocrates. On ulcers.

Aristotle On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing.

Euripides Orestes.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Paradise lost.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Paraphrase on Psalm 114.

Plato. Parmenides.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Passion.

Aristophanes Peace.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Pensees.

Aeschylus Persians.

Plato. Phaedo.

Plato. Phaedrus.

Plato. Philebus.

Sophocles Philoctetes.

Euripides Phoenician women.

Aristotle Physics.

Aristophanes Poet and the woman.

Aristotle Politics.

Aristotle Posterior analytics.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Preface to the Treatise on the vacuum.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 Prince.

Aristotle Prior analytics.

Aeschylus. Prometheus bound.

Plato. Protagoras.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Provincial letters.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Psalm 136.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Psalms I-VII, LXXX-LXXXVIII.

Archimedes. Quadrature of the parabola.

Plato. Republic.

Euripides Rhesus.

Aristotle Rhetoric.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650 Rules for the direction of the mind.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Samson Agonistes.

Archimedes. Sand-reckoner.

Aeschylus Seven against Thebes.

Plato. Seventh letter.

Plotinus Six Enneads.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Song on May morning.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Sonnets, I, VII-XIX.

Plato. Sophist.

Plato. Statesman.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Summa Theologica.

Aeschylus Suppliant maidens.

Euripides Suppiant women.

Plato. Symposium.

Plato. Theaetetus.

Euclid. Thirteen books of Euclid's elements.

Plato. Timaeus.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 To Sir Henry Vane the younger.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 To the Lord Generall Cromwell, May, 1652.

Aristotle Topics.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on active and contemplative life: Part I of second part, QQ 179-182.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on faith, hope and charity: Part 2 of second part, QQ 1-46.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on God: Part I, QQ 1-26.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on grace: Part I of second part, QQ 109-114.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on habits: Part I of second part, QQ 49-89.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on human acts: Part I of second part, QQ 6-48.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on law: Part I of second part, QQ 90-108.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on man: Part I, QQ 75-102.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the angels: Part I, QQ 50-64.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the creation: Part I, QQ 44-49.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the divine government: Part I, QQ 103-119.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the incarnation: Part III, QQ 1-26.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the last end: Part I of second part, QQ 1-5.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the last things: Part III, QQ 87-99.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the resurrection: Part III, QQ 69-86.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the sacraments: Part III, QQ 60-65.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the states of life: Part II of second part, QQ 183-189.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the Trinity: Part I, QQ 27-43.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Treatise on the work of the six days: Part I, QQ 65-74.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Treatise on the arithmetical triangle.

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Treatise on the equilibrium of liquids and on the weight of the mass of the air.

Euripides. Trojan women.

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Upon the circumcision.

Aristophanes Wasps.

Lucretius Carus, Titus Way things are.

Aristophanes Wealth.

Sophocles Women of Trachis.
Added Corporate Author:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.
Added Title:
History of Animals.

Hymn.

Il Penseroso.

Quadrature of the parabola.

The Republic.
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