The Governor's Program for Gifted Children

The GPGC Bookstore - The Great Books - The Modern Age, 1400 - 1700 AD

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy & Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler, translated by Charles Glenn Wallis

The Prince   by Niccolo Machiavelli, Daniel Donno, Editor.

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

De Magnete by William Gilbert, translated by P. Fleury Mottelay

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems : Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei, translated by Stillman Drake

Novum Organum by Francis Bacon. Bacon's works included in The Great Books also include New Atlantis and The Advancement of Learning.

The Anatomical Exercises : De Motu Cordis and De Circulatione Sanguinis, in English Translation by William Harvey, translated by Geoffrey L. Keynes

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by John M. Cohen

Descartes : Selected Philosophical Writings by Rene Descartes, edited by John Cottingham. Another Descartes work is Geometery.

Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza, translated by James Gutmann

The Complete Poetry of John Milton by John Milton

Pensees and Other Writings by Blaise Pascal, translated by Honor Levi

The Principia by Issac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke. Locke's other works include A Letter Concerning Toleration and Political Writings.

The GPGC Great Books Index Page

please contact the webmaster with any comments or questions about this page