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Great books of the Western World. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago. / [Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief]
LIBRA AC1 .G7 v.1 v.2-3 v.4-54
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Collections.
- Literature.
- Literature--Indexes.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Indexes.
- Physical Description:
- 54 volumes : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [Chicago] : W. Benton, [1952]
- Contents:
- 1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.
- 2-3. The great ideas.
- 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.
- 5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Each vol. has also special t.-p.
- "Limited to 2,000 copies".
- Includes bibliographies.
- OCLC:
- 373138
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