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Great books of the Western World, 53 volumes : (Record no. 1168)

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Classification number 809
Item number G786
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Title Great books of the Western World, 53 volumes :
Remainder of title Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Chicago :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. William Benton,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1952.
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Extent 53 v. :
Other physical details ill., maps.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.--2-3. The great ideas.--4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.--6. Herodotus. Thucydides.--7. Plato.--8-9. Aristotle.--10. Hippocrates. Galen.--11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.--12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.--13. Virgil.--14. Plutarch.--15. Tacitus.--16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.--17. Plotinus.--18. Augustine.--19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.--21. Dante.--22. Chaucer.--23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.--24. Rabelais.--25. Montaigne.--26-27. Shakespeare.--28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.--29. Cervantes.--30. Francis Bacon.--31. Descartes. Spinoza.--32. John Milton.--33. Pascal.--34. Newton. Huygens.--35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.--36. Swift. Sterne.--37. Henry Fielding.--38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.--39. Adam Smith.--40-41. Gibbon.--42. Kant.--43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill.--44. Boswell.--45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.--46. Hegel.--47. Goethe.--48. Melville.--49. Darwin.--50. Marx.--51. Tolstoy.--52. Dostoevsky.--53. William James.--54. Freud.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Literature
General subdivision Collections.
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Literature
General subdivision Indexes.
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Personal name Hutchins, Robert Maynard.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element University of Chicago.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Special Reserve Matheson Library Matheson Library Special Reserve - 2 Hours Use items 19.07.2019   SR 809 G786 096236 08.05.2017 08.05.2017 2 Hour Special Reserve