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Great books of the Western World
Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief
Encyclopædia Britannica, c1952
Founders' ed
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"This is the Founders' edition of Great books of the Western World, limited to 500 numbered copies signied by the editor."--V. 1, p. 1
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21
- English minor poems ; Paradise lost ; Samson Agonistes ; Areopagitica
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by John Milton
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 32 Available at 3 libraries
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22
- Rules for the direction of the mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry . Ethics
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by René Descartes ; [translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane ... et al.] . by Benedict de Spinoza ; [translated by W.H. White ; revised by A. H. Stirling]
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 31 Available at 3 libraries
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23
- Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis
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by Sir Francis Bacon
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 30 Available at 3 libraries
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24
- The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha
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by Miguel de Cervantes ; translated by John Ormsby
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 29 Available at 3 libraries
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25
- On the loadstone and magnetic bodies . Concerning the two new sciences . On the motion of the heart and blood in animals ; On the circulation of the blood ; On the generation of animals
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by William Gilbert ; [translated by P. Fleury Mottelay] . by Galileo Galilei ; [translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio] . by William Harvey ; [translated by Robert Willis]
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 28 Available at 3 libraries
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26
- The plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare
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edited by William George Clarke and William Aldis Wright
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 26-27 v. 1 , v. 2
Available at 4 libraries
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27
- The essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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translated by Charles Cotton ; edited by W. Carew Hazlitt
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 25 Available at 3 libraries
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28
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
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by François Rabelais ; translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 24 Available at 3 libraries
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29
- The prince . Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth ecclesiastical and civil
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by Nicolò Machiavelli ; [translated by W.K. Marriott] . by Thomas Hobbes ; [edited by Nelle Fuller]
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 23 Available at 3 libraries
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30
- Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales
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by Geoffrey Chaucer
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 22 Available at 4 libraries
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31
- The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri
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translated by Charles Eliot Norton
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 21 Available at 3 libraries
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32
- The summa theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas
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translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province ; revised by Daniel J. Sullivan
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 19-20 v. 1 , v. 2
Available at 3 libraries
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33
- The confessions ; The city of god ; On Christian doctrine
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by Saint Augustine ; [translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey ... et al.]
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 18 Available at 3 libraries
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34
- The six Enneads
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Plotinus ; translated by Stephen MacKenna and B.S. Page
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 17 Available at 3 libraries
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35
- The almagest . On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres . Epitome of Copernican astronomy, IV and V ; The harmonies of the world, V
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by Ptolemy ; [translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro] . by Nicolaus Copernicus ; [translated by Charles Glenn Wallis] . by Johannes Kepler ; [translated by Charles Glenn Wallis]
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 16 Available at 3 libraries
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36
- The annals and The histories
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by P. Cornelius Tacitus ; [translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb]
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 15 Available at 3 libraries
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37
- The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans
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Plutarch ; translated by John Dryden ; revised by Arthur Hugh Clough
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 14 Available at 3 libraries
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38
- The poems of Virgil
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translated into English verse by James Rhoades
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 13 Available at 5 libraries
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39
- Lucretius : on the nature of things . The discourses of Epictetus . The meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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translated by H.A.J. Munro . translated by George Long . translated by George Long
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 12 Available at 3 libraries
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40
- The thirteen books of Euclid's elements . The works of Archimedes including the method . On conic sections . Introduction to arithmetic
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[translated by Thomas L. Heath] . [translated by Thomas L. Heath] . by Apollonius of Perga ; [translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro] . by Nichomachus of Gerasa ; [translated by Martin L. D'Ooge]
Encyclopædia Britannica c1952 Founders' ed Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins,
editor in chief 11 Available at 3 libraries