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Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago. [Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief.

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TextPublication details: Chicago] W. Benton [1952]Edition: Founders' edDescription: 54 v. illus., maps. 25 cmSubject(s):

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AC1 .G7

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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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	University Library	Non-Circulation	AC1 G7 1952 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	v.12	Available		3UPML00035471
Book	University Library	Non-Circulation	AC1 G7 1952 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	v.15	Available		3UPML00034021

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