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The provincial letters ; Pensées ; Scientific treatises
| Responsibility | Blaise Pascal |
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| Series | Great books of the Western World / Mortimer J. Adler, editor in chief ; 30 |
| Material Type | Book |
| Edition | 2nd ed |
| Publisher | Chicago : Encyclopædia Britannica |
| Year | c1990 |
| Language | English |
| Size | vi, 487 p. ; 24 cm |
| Abstract | From the ancient classics to the recent masterpieces, the Great Books of the Western World is the ultimate introduction to the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Au...horitative and accurate, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science. show more |
| Table of Contents | v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides 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 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 19. The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer 21. The prince / NicoloÌ Machiavelli. Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil / Thomas Hobbes 23. Praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 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 28. Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon. Rules for the direction of the mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry / ReneÌ Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza 31. The school for wives ; The critique of the School for wives ; Tartuffe ; Don Juan ; The miser ; The world-be gentleman ; The would-be invalid / MolieÌre. 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 40. American state papers. The federalist / by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. On liberty ; Representative government ; Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill 42. Elements of chemistry / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday 43. The philosophy of right ; The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Fear and trembling / Søren Kierkegaard. Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche 45. Faust. Parts one and two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cousin Bette / HonoreÌ de Balzac 46. Emma / Jane Austen. Middlemarch / George Eliot 48. Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain 52. The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A doll's house ; The wild duck ; Hedda Gabler ; The master builder / Henrik Ibsen 55. William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth 56. Henri PoincareÌ, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G.H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin SchroÌdinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C.H. Waddington 57. Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes 58. Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude LeÌvi-Strauss 59. Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce 60. Virginia Woolf, Franz Kakfa, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett [61] The great conversation : a reader's guide to Great books of the Western world.show more |
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| Status | Volume | Location | Call No. | Printed | Collection Name | Barcode No. | Comments | Reserve | Copy | Automatic archive |
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Central Library ASRS | 083/G 81/6(30) | 1990 |
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Bibliographic details
| Other titles | variant access title:Provincial letters variant access title:Pensées variant access title:Scientific treatises spine title:Pascal spine title:Great Books |
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| Notes | Spine title: Pascal Spine title: Great books Translated from the French by Thomas M'Crie, W.F. Trotter, Richard Scofield Includes bibliographical references |
| Authors | *Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 M'Crie, Thomas, 1797-1875 Trotter, W. F. (William Finlayson), 1871- Scofield, Richard |
| Subjects | LCSH:Jesuits -- Early works to 1800
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| ID | 1000110859 |
| ISBN | 0852295316 |
| NCID | BA12517528 |
| Vol | ISBN:0852295316 |
| Created Date | 2009.09.10 |
| Modified Date | 2009.09.10 |