Monthly Archives: August 2013

De Legibus, Marcus Tullius Cicero (50BC)

De Legibus, Marcus Tullius Cicero (50BC)

Book 1 A: Therefore, in this spare time, as you say, why do you not explain to us these very things themselves and write about …

 

Secret, Petrarca (1353)

Secret, Petrarca (1353)

Petrarch: Yes, that is my view also; in the meanwhile, however, have you not forgotten my first question? S. Augustine: What was it? Petrarch: Concerning what keeps …

 

Metamorphoses, Ovid (8AD)

Metamorphoses, Ovid (8AD)

BOOK I (Lines 163-415) Lycaon.  LYCAON CHANGED TO A WOLF When, from his throne supreme, the Son of Saturn viewed their deeds, he deeply groaned: and calling to his mind the …

 

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Sir Isaac Newton (1687)

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Sir Isaac Newton (1687)

THE PRINCIPIA. THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE Since the ancients (as we are told by Pappus), made great account of the science of mechanics in the investigation of natural …

 

The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot (1922)

The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot (1922)

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us …

 

Getrude Stein, What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them? (1936)

Getrude Stein, What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them? (1936)

I WAS almost going to talk this lecture and not write and read it because all the lectures that I have written and read in …

 

Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant (1788)

Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant (1788)

THE IDEA OF TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY bear the character of an inward necessity, must be independent of experience, — clear and certain by themselves. They are …

 

Dialogues Concerning Two Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei (1632)

Dialogues Concerning Two Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei (1632)

TO THE DISCERNING READER Several years ago there was published in Rome a salutary edict which, in order to obviaie the dangerous tendencies of our present …

 

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Galileo Galilei (1638)

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Galileo Galilei (1638)

FIRST DAY INTERLOCUTORS: SALVIATI, SAGREDO AND SIMPLICIO Salv. The constant activity which you Venetians display in your famous arsenal suggests to the studious mind a large field for …

 

The Monadology, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1714)

The Monadology, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1714)

Translated by Robert Latta 1. The Monad, of which we shall here speak, is nothing but a simple substance, which enters into compounds. By ‘simple’ is …