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: Encyclopedia Britannica
, 1952_1993
60 v
"These books have a reader's guide with title the great conversation"
Includes index
v. 1: The Syntopicon: I, an index to the great ideas.__ v. 2: The Syntopicon: II, an index to the great ideas.__ v. 3: Homer: the Iliad and the odyssey of Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore.__ v. 4: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes.__ v. 5: Herodotus, Thucydides: the history of Herodotus; the history of the Peloponnesian war Thucydides; translated by George Rawlinson and Richard Crawley.__ v. 6: Plato: the dialogues of Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett and the seventh letter; translated by J. Harward.__ v. 7: Aristotle: I, the works of Aristotle.__ v. 8: Aristotle: II, the works of Aristotle.__ v. 9: Hippocrates Galen: Hippocratic writtings Galen on the natural faculties.__ v. 10: Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus.__ v. 11: Lucretius: the way things are, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus.__ v. 12: Virgil.__ v. 13: Plutarch; the Dryden translation.__ v. 14: Tacitus.__ v. 15: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler.__ v. 16: Agustine: the confessions the city of God on Christian doctrine.__ v. 17: Aquinas: I.__ v. 18: Aquinas: II.__ v. 19: Dante, Chaucer.__ v. 20: Calvin.__ v. 21: Machiavelli, Hobbes.__ v. 22: Rabelais.__ v. 23: Erasmus, Montaigne.__ v. 24: Shakespeare: I.__ v. 25: Shakespeare: II.__ v. 26: Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey.__ v. 27: Cervantes.__ v. 28: Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza.__ v. 29: Milton.__ v. 30: Pascal.__ v. 31: Moliere Racine.__ v. 32: Newton, Huygens.__ v. 33: Locke, Berkeley, Hume.__ v. 34: Swift, Voltaire, Diderot.__ v. 35: Montesquieu.__ v. 36: Adam Smith.__ v. 37: Gibbon: I.__ v. 38: Gibbon: II.__ v. 39: Kant.__ v. 40: American state papers, the federalist, J. S. Mill.__ v. 41: Boswell.__ v. 42: Lavoisier, Faraday.__ v. 43: Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche.__ v. 44: Tocqueville.__ v. 45: Goethe Balzac.__ v. 46: Austen, George Eliot.__ v. 47: Dickens.__ v. 48: Melville, Twain.__ v. 49: Darwin.__ v. 50: Marx, Engels.__ v. 51: Tolstoy.__ v. 52: Dostoevsky, Ibsen.__ v. 53: William James.__ v. 54: Freud.__ v. 55: William James, Bergson, Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Barth.__ v. 56: Poincare, Planck, Whitehead, Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Hardy, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dobzhansky, Waddington.__ v. 57: Veblen, Tawney, Keynes.__ v. 58: Frazer, Weber, Huizinga, Levi_ Strauss.__ v. 59: Henry James, Shaw, Conrad, Chekhov, Pirandello, Proust, Cather, Mann, Joyce.__ v. 60: Woolf, Kafka, Lawrence, T. S. Elliot, O'Neill, Fitzgerald