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Gargantua and Pantagruel. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux.

by Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?
Published 1955

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Essays. Translated by Charles Cotton, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt.

by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
Published 1955

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The almagest, by Ptolemy. [Translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro] On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres, by Nicolaus Copernicus. [Translated by Charles Glenn Wallis] Epitome of Copernican astronomy: IV and V [and] The harmonies of the world: V. By Johannes Kepler. [Translated by Charles Glenn Wallis]

by Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Published 1955

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Rules for the direction of the mind. Discourse on the method. Meditations on first philosophy. Objections against the meditations and replies. [Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross] The geometry. [Translated by David Eugene Smith and Marcia L. Latham] By René Descartes. Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza. [Translated by W. H. White, rev. by A. H. Stirling]

by Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Published 1955

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Plays and sonnets. Edited by William George Clarke [i.e. Clark] and William Aldis Wright.

by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published 1955

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Advancement of learning. Novum organum. New Atlantis.

by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published 1955

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Poems. Translated into English verse by James Rhoades.

by Virgil.
Published 1955

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The Divine comedy. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton.

by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published 1952

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The provincial letters. [Translated by Thomas M'Crie] Pensées. [Translated by W. F. Trotter] Scientific treatises. [Translated by Richard Scofield]

by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
Published 1955

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The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by John Ormsby.

by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Published 1955

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The Summa theologica. Translated by fathers of the English Dominican Province. Rev. by Daniel J. Sullivan.

by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Published 1955

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The Iliad and the Odyssey, rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler.

by Homer.
Published 1955

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A letter concerning toleration. [Translated by William Popple] Concerning civil government, second essay. An essay concerning human understanding. By John Locke. The principles of human knowledge, by George Berkeley. An enquiry concerning human understanding, by David Hume.

by Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Published 1955

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American state papers. [Declaration of independence, Articles of confederation and the Constitution] The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison [and] John Jay. On liberty, Representative government [and] Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill.

Published 1955

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes.

Published 1955

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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.

by Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Published 1955

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The Great ideas; a syntopicon of Great books of the Western World. Mortimer J. Adler, editor in chief; William Gorman, general editor.

Published 1955

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The origin of species by means of natural selection. The descent of man and selection in relation to sex.

by Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Published 1955

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The great conversation; the substance of a liberal education.

by Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977.
Published 1955

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Hippocratic writings. [Translated by Francis Adams] On the natural faculties, by Galen. [Translated by Arthur John Brock]

by Hippocrates.
Published 1955

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