2007年2月21日星期三

100 most influential books ever written...

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'100 Most Influential Books Ever Written' by Martin Seymour-Smith


  • The I Ching

  • The Old Testament

  • The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

  • The Upanishads

  • The Way and Its Power, Lao-tzu

  • The Avesta

  • Analects, Confucius

  • History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides

  • Works, Hippocrates

  • Works, Aristotle

  • History, Herodotus

  • The Republic, Plato

  • Elements, Euclid

  • The Dhammapada

  • Aeneid, Virgil

  • On the Nature of Reality, Lucretius

  • Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, Philo of Alexandria

  • Lives, Plutarch

  • The New Testament

  • Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus, Cornelius Tacitus

  • The Gospel of Truth

  • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

  • Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus

  • Enneads, Plotinus

  • Confessions, Augustine of Hippo

  • The Koran

  • Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides

  • The Kabbalah

  • Summa Theologicae, Thomas Aquinas

  • The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

  • In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus

  • The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli

  • On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

  • Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin

  • On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, Nicolaus Copernicus

  • Essays, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

  • Don Quixote, Parts I and II, Miguel de Cervantes

  • The Harmony of the World, Johannes Kepler

  • Novum Organum, Francis Bacon

  • The First Folio [Works], William Shakespeare

  • Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei

  • Discourse on Method, René Descartes

  • Pensées, Blaise Pascal

  • Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

  • Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

  • Ethics, Baruch de Spinoza

  • Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan

  • Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton

  • The Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley

  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke

  • The New Science, Giambattista Vico

  • A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume

  • The Encyclopedia, Denis Diderot, ed.

  • A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson

  • Candide, François-Marie de Voltaire

  • Common Sense, Thomas Paine

  • An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
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