GBK 401--Origins of the Modern World View in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

eadings in Newton, Descartes, Shakespeare, Bacon, Galileo, Donne, Pascal and Hobbes.

• Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

  Physics (350 B.C.)

  Aristotle. Physics. World's Classics. Oxford Univ Press,1996.

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• Sir. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

  Essays (1597-1625)

  Bacon, Francis. Essays. Edited by Michael J. Hawkins. Everyman's Library. Everymans Library, 1994.

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  Bacon, Francis. Essays. Great Books in Philosophy. Prometheus Books, 1995.

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  Bacon, Francis. The Essays. Penguin Classics. Viking Press, 1986.

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  Novum Organon (1620)

  Bacon, Francis. New Organon and Related Writings. Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1960.

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• Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

  Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences (c. 1637-1644)

  Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method and the Meditations. Great Books in Philosophy. Prometheus Books, 1989.

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  Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method and the Meditations. Penguin Classics. Viking Press, 1987.

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  Descartes, Rene. Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Edited by David Weissman. Rethinking the Western Tradition. Yale Univ Press, 1996.

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• John Donne (1572-1631)

  Sonnets

  Donne, John. Complete English Poems. Edited by Robin Hamilton, C. A. Patrides. Everyman's Library. Everyman's Library, 1994.

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  Donne, John. Complete English Poems : John Donne. Viking Press, 1977.

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• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

  Mathmatical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)

• George Herbert (1593-1633)

  Selected Poetry

  Herbert, George. The Complete English Poems. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1992.

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  Herbert, George. English Poems of George Herbert. Everymans Classic Library. Everymans Library, 1991.

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• Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

  The Leviathan (1651)

  Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by Richard Tuck. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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  Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by J. C. A. Gaskin. World's Classics. Oxford University Press, 1996.

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  Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Everyman Library. Everyman Library, 1994.

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  Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Great Books in Philosophy. Prometheus Books, 1988.

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  Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Viking Press, 1982.

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• Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

  The Prince (c. 1515)

• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

  Pensées (1670)

  Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1995.

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  Pascal, Blaise. Pensées and Other Writings. Edited by Honor Levi, and Anthony Levi. The World's Classics. Oxford University Press, 1995.

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• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

  Works

  Shakespeare, William. The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Edited by Alfred Harbage. Viking Press, 1974.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Outlet, 1992.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare : The Complete Works. Edited by Howard Staunton. Grammercy, 1996.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2d ed.. Edited by J. J. M. Tobin, Herschel Baker, and G. Blakemore Evans. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

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  Shakespeare, William. William Shakespeare : The Complete Works. Grammercy, 1993.

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  Sonnets (1609)

  Shakespeare, William. Complete Sonnets. Dover Thrifft Editions. Dover Publications, 1991.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Portable Shakespeare : Seven Plays, the Songs, the Sonnets, Selections from the Other Plays. Viking Portable Library. Viking Press, 1981.

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  Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's Sonnets. Pocket Books, 1992.

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  Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint. Oxford University Press, 1990.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets. Edited by Rex Gibson. Cambridge School Shakespeare. Cambridge Univ Press, 1997.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets : Narrative Poems : The Complete Non-Dramatic Poetry With New Literary Criticism and an Updated Bibliography. Edited by Sylvan Barnet. Signet Classic Shakespeare. Signet, 1994.

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  The Tragedy of King Lear (1605-1606)

  Shakespeare, William. Four Tragedies : Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth. Edited by David Bevington. Bantam Classics. Bantam Books, 1988.

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  Shakespeare, William. Four Great Tragedies : Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, MacBeth. Pocket Books, 1988.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of King Lear. Edited by Jay L. Halio. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of King Lear. The New Folger Library Shakespeare. Washington Square Press, 1993.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of King Lear. Edited by Russell Fraser. Signet Classic Shakespeare Series. New American Library, 1989.

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  Tempest

  Shakespeare, William. Four Great Comedies : The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, the Tempest. Signet Classic Shakespeare Series. New American Library, 1989.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Edited by Frank Kermode. Arden Shakespeare. Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1988.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat, and Paul Werstine. The New Folger Library Shakespeare. Washington Square Press, 1994.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Edited by David Bevington. Bantam Classics. Bantam Books, 1992.

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  Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Edited by Rex Gibson. Cambridge School Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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