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Volume 1-9 Homer Herodotus Plato Aristotle
Volume 1
The Great Conversation
Volume 2-3
Syntopicon
- Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy
- Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention
- Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty
- Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience
- Family, Fate, Form
- God, Good and Evil, Government
- Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis
- Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity
- Judgment, Justice, Knowledge
- Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, Love
- Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy
- Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition
- Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment,
- Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric,
- Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State
- Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny
- Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice
- War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, World
Volume 4
Homer
(rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler)
Volume 5
Aeschylus
(translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)
Sophocles
(translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)
Euripides
(translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)
- Rhesus
- Medea
- Hippolytus
- Alcestis
- Heracleidae
- The Suppliants
- The Trojan Women
- Ion
- Helen
- Andromache
- Electra
- Bacchantes
- Hecuba
- Heracles Mad
- The Phoenician Women
- Orestes
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Cyclops
Aristophanes
(translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)
- The Acharnians
- The Knights
- The Clouds
- The Wasps
- Peace
- The Birds
- The Frogs
- Lysistrata
- Thesmophoriazusae
- Ecclesiazousae
- Plutus
Volume 6
Herodotus
- The History
(translated by George Rawlinson)
Thucydides
- History of the Peloponnesian War
(translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)
Volume 7
Plato
The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)
- Charmides
- Lysis
- Laches
- Protagoras
- Euthydemus
- Cratylus
- Phaedrus
- Ion
- Symposium
- Meno
- Euthyphro
- Apology
- Crito
- Phaedo
- Gorgias
- The Republic
- Timaeus
- Critias
- Parmenides
- Theaetetus
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Philebus
- Laws
- The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)
Volume 8-9
Aristotle
Volume 10-20 Hippocrates Archimedes Aurelius Ptolemy Corpernicus
Volume 10
Hippocrates
- Works
Galen
- On the Natural Faculties
Volume 11
Euclid
- The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements
Archimedes
- On the Sphere and Cylinder
- Measurement of a Circle
- On Conoids and Spheroids
- On Spirals
- On the Equilibrium of Planes
- The Sand Reckoner
- The Quadrature of the Parabola
- On Floating Bodies
- Book of Lemmas
- The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of Perga
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Volume 12
Lucretius
- On the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro)
Epictetus
- The Discourses (translated by George Long)
Marcus Aurelius
- The Meditations (translated by George Long)
Volume 13
Virgil
(translated into English verse by James Rhoades)
Volume 14
Plutarch
- The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (translated by John Dryden)
Volume 15
P. Cornelius Tacitus
(translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)
Volume 16
Ptolemy
- Almagest, (translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro)
Nicolaus Copernicus
- On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
Johannes Kepler
(translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V)
- The Harmonies of the World (Book V)
Volume 17
Plotinus
- The Six Enneads (translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page)
Volume 18
Augustine of Hippo
Volume 19-20
Thomas Aquinas
- Summa Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
- Summa Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
John Calvin
- Institutes of the Christian Religion (Selections)
Volume 21-25 Dante Niccolò
Volume 21
Dante Alighieri
- Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)
Volume 22
Geoffrey Chaucer
Volume 23
Niccolò Machiavelli
Thomas Hobbes
Erasmus
Volume 24
François Rabelais
Volume 25
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Volume 26-27 Shakespeare
Volume 26-27
William Shakespeare
- The First Part of King Henry VI
- The Second Part of King Henry VI
- The Third Part of King Henry VI
- The Tragedy of Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Titus Andronicus
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Tragedy of King Richard II
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The First Part of King Henry IV
- The Second Part of King Henry IV
- Much Ado About Nothing
- The Life of King Henry V
- Julius Caesar
- As You Like It
- Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Troilus and Cressida
- All’s Well That Ends Well
- Measure for Measure
- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Coriolanus
- Timon of Athens
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Cymbeline
- The Winter’s Tale
- The Tempest
- The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
- Sonnets
Volume 28-38 Galileo Descartes Milton Pascal Newton Locke
Volume 28
William Gilbert
Galileo Galilei
William Harvey
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
- On the Circulation of Blood
- On the Generation of Animals
Volume 29
Miguel de Cervantes
- The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha (translated by John Ormsby)
Volume 30
Sir Francis Bacon
Volume 31
René Descartes
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind
- Discourse on the Method
- Meditations on First Philosophy
- Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
- The Geometry
Benedict de Spinoza
Molière
- The School for Wives
- The Critique of the School for Wives
- Tartuffe
- Don Juan
- The Miser
- The Would-Be Gentleman
- The Imaginary Invalid
Jean Racine
Volume 32
John Milton
- English Minor Poems
- Paradise Lost
- Samson Agonistes
- Areopagitica
Volume 33
Blaise Pascal
- The Provincial Letters
- Pensées
- Scientific and mathematical essays
Volume 34
Sir Isaac Newton
Christian Huygens
Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Volume 35
John Locke
- A Letter Concerning Toleration
- Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley
David Hume
Volume 36
Jonathan Swift
Laurence Sterne
Volume 37
Henry Fielding
Volume 38
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
- A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- A Discourse on Political Economy
- The Social Contract
Volume 39-49 Smith Kant Nietzsche Austen Dickens Darwin
Volume 39
Adam Smith
Volume 40-41
Edward Gibbon
Volume 42
Immanuel Kant
- Critique of Pure Reason
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Critique of Practical Reason
- Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals
- Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience
- General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
- The Science of Right
- The Critique of Judgement
Volume 43
American State Papers
- Declaration of Independence
- Articles of Confederation
- The Constitution of the United States of America
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
John Stuart Mill
Søren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Volume 44
James Boswell
Alexis de Tocqueville
Volume 45
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
- Analytical Theory of Heat
Michael Faraday
- Experimental Researches in Electricity
Honoré de Balzac
Volume 46
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Volume 47
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Charles Dickens
Volume 48
Herman Melville
Mark Twain
Volume 49
Charles Darwin
Volume 50-55 Marx Tolstoy James Freud Russell
Volume 50
Karl Marx
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Volume 51
Count Leo Tolstoy
Volume 52
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Henrik Ibsen
Volume 53
William James
Volume 54
Sigmund Freud
- The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
- Selected Papers on Hysteria
- The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
- The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
- Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis
- The Interpretation of Dreams
- On Narcissism
- Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
- Repression
- The Unconscious
- A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
- The Ego and the Id
- Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Volume 55
William James
- Pragmatism
Henri Bergson
John Dewey
Alfred North Whitehead
- Science and the Modern World
Bertrand Russell
Martin Heidegger
- What Is Metaphysics?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Karl Barth
- The Word of God and the Word of Man
Volume 56-60 Einstein Schrödinger Shaw Eliot Orwell
Volume 56
Henri Poincaré
- Science and Hypothesis
Max Planck
- Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Alfred North Whitehead
- An Introduction to Mathematics
Albert Einstein
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Arthur Eddington
- The Expanding Universe
Niels Bohr
- Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)
- Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology
G. H. Hardy
Werner Heisenberg
- Physics and Philosophy
Erwin Schrödinger
Theodosius Dobzhansky
C. H. Waddington
- The Nature of Life
Volume 57
Thorstein Veblen
R. H. Tawney
- The Acquisitive Society
John Maynard Keynes
Volume 58
Sir James George Frazer
- The Golden Bough (selections)
Max Weber
- Essays in Sociology (selections)
Johan Huizinga
Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Structural Anthropology (selections)
