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Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17. Lucretius — On the Nature of Things18. Virgil — Works19. Horace — Works20. Livy — History of Rome21. Ovid — Works22. Plutarch — Parallel Lives; Moralia23. Tacitus — Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania24. Nicomachus of Gerasa — Introduction to Arithmetic25. Epictetus — Discourses; Encheiridion26. Ptolemy — Almagest27. Lucian — Works28. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations29. Galen — On the Natural Faculties30. The New Testament31. Plotinus — The Enneads32. St. Augustine — On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine33. The Song of Roland34. The Nibelungenlied35. The Saga of Burnt Njál36. St. Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica37. Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy; The New Life; On Monarchy38. Geoffrey Chaucer — Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales39. Leonardo da Vinci — Notebooks40. Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy41. Desiderius Erasmus — The Praise of Folly42. Nicolaus Copernicus — On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres43. Thomas More — Utopia44. Martin Luther — Table Talk; Three Treatises45. François Rabelais — Gargantua and Pantagruel46. John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion47. Michel de Montaigne — Essays48. William Gilbert — On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies49. Miguel de Cervantes — Don Quixote50. Edmund Spenser — Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene51. Francis Bacon — Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis52. William Shakespeare — Poetry and Plays53. Galileo Galilei — Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences54. Johannes Kepler — Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World55. William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals56. Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan57. René Descartes — Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy58. John Milton — Works59. Molière — Comedies60. Blaise Pascal — The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises61. Christiaan Huygens — Treatise on Light62. Benedict de Spinoza — Ethics63. John Locke — Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education64. Jean Baptiste Racine — Tragedies65. Isaac Newton — Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology67. Daniel Defoe — Robinson Crusoe68. Jonathan Swift — A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal69. William Congreve — The Way of the World70. George Berkeley — Principles of Human Knowledge71. Alexander Pope — Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu — Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws73. Voltaire — Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary74. Henry Fielding — Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones75. Samuel Johnson — The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets

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