"An infamous Renaissance classic, The Prince shocked Europe upon publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli even came to be regarded by some as an agent of the Devel, his name taken for the intriguer "Machevill" of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting...

Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler--Great Books.

The Annals was Tacitus' final work and provides a key source for modern understanding of the history of the Roman Empire from the beginning of the reign of Tiberius in AD 14 to the end of the reign of Nero, in AD 68. Tacitus wrote the Annals in at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. The period covered by the Histories (written before the Annals) starts at the beginning of the year AD 69, i.e. six months after...

Analytical Theory Of Heat By Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier And Experimental Researches In Electricity By Michael Faraday.

In the History of Herodotus, he describes his travels through Asia Minor, European Greece, and the islands of Rhodes, Cyprus, Delos, Paros, Thasos, Samothrace, Crete Samos, Cythera, and many others. He also describes many of the political situations in Athens and other places. In the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides gives an account of the war as it is happening.