How To Read A Book- A Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading - Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren [166]
26. Ptolemy ( c. 100-178; fl. 127-151 )
•Almagest
27. ••Lucian ( c. 120-c. 190 )
Works
( esp. The Way to Write History,
The True History, The Sale of Creeds)
28. Marcus Aurelius ( 121-180 )
• Meditations
29. Galen ( c. 130-200 )
•on the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus ( 205-270 )
0The Enneads
32. St. Augustine ( 354-430 )
Works
( esp. On the Teacher, •confessions,
0The City of God, •christian Doctrine )
33. The Song of Roland ( 12th century? )
34. The Nibelungenlied ( 13th century )
( The V olsunga Saga is the Scandinavian version of the same legend. )
Appendix A 353
35. The Saga of Bumt Nial
36. St. Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1225-127 4 )
•summa Theologica
37. • •Dante Alighieri ( 1265-1321 )
Works
( esp. The New Life, On Monarchy,
0The Divine Comedy )
38. Geoffrey Chaucer ( c. 1340-1400 )
Works
esp. •Troilus and Criseyde,
•canterbury Tales)
39. Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 )
Notebooks
40. Niccolo Machiavelli ( 1469-1527 )
0The Prince
Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus ( c. 1469-1536 )
The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473-1543)
•on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 43. Sir Thomas More ( c. 1478-1535 )
Utopia
44. Martin Luther ( 1483-1546 )
Three Treatises
Table-Talk
45. Fran�ois Rabelais ( c. 1495-1553 )
•Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin ( 1509-1564 )
Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne ( 1533-1592)
•Essays
48. William Gilbert ( 1540-1603 )
•on the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes ( 1547-1616 )
• Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser ( c. 1552-1599 )
Prothalamion
The Faerie Queene
354 HOW TO READ A BOOK
51. 0°Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626)
Essays
• Advancement of Learning
• Novum Organum
• New Atlantis
52. Wil Shakespeare ( 1564-1616 )
•works
53. • •calileo Galilei ( 1564-1642 )
The Starry Messenger
• Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler ( 1571-1630 )
• Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
•concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey ( 1578-1657 )
•on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
•on the Circulation of the Blood
•on the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes ( 1581679 )
0The Leviathan
57. Rene Descartes ( 1596-1650 )
• Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• Discourse on Method
•Geometry
• Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton ( 1608-1674 )
Works
( esp. •the minor poems, • Areopagitica,
• Paradise Lost, • Samson Agonistes )
59. • • Moliere ( 1622-1673 )
Comedies
( esp. The Miser, The School for Wives,
The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Tartuffe ) 60. Blaise Pascal ( 1623-1662 )
•The Provincial Letters
•Pensees
• Scientific treatises
Appendix A 355
61. Christiaan Huygens ( 1629-1695 )
•Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza ( 1632-167 )
•Ethics
63. John Locke ( 1632-1704 )
• Letter Concerning Toleration
•"Of Civil Government" ( second treatise in Two Treatises on Government )
•Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine ( 1639-169 )
Tragedies
( esp. Andromache, Phaedra )
65. Isaac Newton ( 1642-1727 )
• Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
•optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz ( 1646-1716 ) Discourse on Metaphysics
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Monadology
67. ••Daniel Defoe ( 1660-1731 )
Robinson Crusoe
68. • •Jonathan Swift ( 1667-1745 )
A Tale of a Tub
Journal to Stella
•eullivers Travels
A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve ( 1670-1729 )
The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley ( 1685-1753 )
•Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope ( 1688-17 44 )
Essay on Criticism
Rape of the Lock
Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ( 1689-1755 )
Persian Letters
356 HOW TO READ A BOOK
72. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, continued
•Spirit of Laws
73. • •voltaire ( 1694-1778 )
Letters on the English
Candide
Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding ( 1707-1754 )
Joseph Andrews
•Tom Jones
75. • •samuel Johnson