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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]

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
University of Chicago.
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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