Contents:
                  
                                          v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas
                                          4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
                                          5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides
                                          9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen
                                          10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus
                                          11. The way things are / Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six Enneads / Plotinus
                                          15. The almagest / Ptolemy. On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus. Epitome of Copernican astronomy, IV-V ; The harmonies of the world, V / Johannes Kepler
                                          19. The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri. Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
                                          21. The prince / Nicolò Machiavelli. Leviathan, or, Matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil / Thomas Hobbes
                                          23. Praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
                                          26. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / William Gilbert. Concerning the two new sciences / Galileo Galilei. On the motion of the heart and blood in animals ; On the circulation of the blood ; On the generation of animals / William Harvey
                                          28. Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon. Rules for the direction of the mind ; Discourse on the method ; Meditations on first philosophy ; Objections against the meditations and replies ; The geometry / René Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza
                                          31. The school for wives ; The critique of the School for wives ; Tartuffe ; Don Juan ; The miser ; The world-be gentleman ; The would-be invalid / Molière. Berenice ; Phaedra / Jean Racine
                                          32. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics / Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / Christiaan Huygens
                                          33. A letter concerning toleration ; Concerning civil government, second essay ; An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke. The principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley. An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume
                                          34. Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift. Candide / Voltaire. Rameau's nephew / Denis Diderot
                                          35. The spirit of laws / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. On the origin of inequality ; On political economy ; The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau
                                          40. American state papers. The federalist / by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. On liberty ; Representative government ; Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill
                                          42. Elements of chemistry / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday
                                          43. The philosophy of right ; The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Fear and trembling / Søren Kierkegaard. Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche
                                          45. Faust. Parts one and two / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac
                                          46. Emma / Jane Austen. Middlemarch / George Eliot
                                          48. Moby Dick, or, The whale / Herman Melville. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
                                          52. The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A doll's house ; The wild duck ; Hedda Gabler ; The master builder / Henrik Ibsen
                                          55. William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
                                          56. Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G.H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C.H. Waddington
                                          57. Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes
                                          58. Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss
                                          59. Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce
                                          60. Virginia Woolf, Franz Kakfa, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ern