Plato: Symposium, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Republic, Statesman, Laws, Timaeus
Aristotle: Organon, History of Animals, Physics, On the Heavens, Meteorologics, Mechanics, Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics
The Greek Playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander
Greek and Roman Historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Sallust, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus
St. Augustine: Confessions, City of God
St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
Thomas Paine: Common Sense
Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thomas Malthus: Essay on the Principle of Population
Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience"
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Alfred T. Mahan: The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Sir Halford J. Mackinder: "The Geographical Pivot of History"
Theophrastus: On the History of Plants, On the Causes of Plants
Archimedes: On the Sphere and Cylinder
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura
Pliny the Elder: Natural History
Nicolaus Copernicus: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Andrea Vesalius: DeHumani Corporis Fabrica
William Harvey: De Motu Cordis
Sir Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica
Edward Jenner: An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
Charles Darwin: Origins of Species
Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
Albert Einstein: Relativity, The Special and General Theories
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring.
