years of Western intellectual history.
Though not comprehensive, it is designed
to touch on nearly every area of inquiry.
*
These authors and works are read in seminar.
The others are distributed among the tutorials
and the laboratory.
Palestrina
Missa Papae
Marcelli
*
Montaigne
Essays
Viète
“
Introduction to the
Analytical Art”
*
Bacon
NovumOrganum
Shakespeare
*
Richard II, *Henry
IV, *The Tempest,
*
As You Like It,
*
Hamlet, *Othello,
*
Macbeth, *King
Lear,
Sonnets
Poems by:
Marvell, Donne,
and other 16th- and
17
th-century poets
Descartes
Geometry,
*
Discourse onMethod
Pascal
Generation
of Conic Sections
Rabelais
Gargantua and
Pantagruel
Bach
St. Matthew
Passion,
Inventions
Hayden
Quartets
Monteverdi
L’Orfeo
Mozart
Operas
Beethoven
Third Symphony
Schubert
Songs
Stravinsky
Symphony of
Psalms
*
Maimonides
Guide for the
Perplexed
Sophomore
Year
*
The Bible
Aristotle
*
De Anima,
On Interpretation,
Prior Analytics,
Categories
Apollonius
Conics
*
Virgil
Aeneid
*
Plutarch
“
Caesar,” “Cato
the Younger,”
“
Anthony,” “Brutus”
*
Epictetus
Discourses, Manual
*
Tacitus
Annals
Ptolemy
Almagest
*
Plotinus
The Enneads
*
Augustine
Confessions
*
Anselm
Proslogium
*
Aquinas
Summa Theologiae
*
Dante
Divine Comedy
*
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
Des Prez
Mass
*
Machiavelli
The Prince,
Discourses
Copernicus
On the Revolutions
of the Spheres
*
Luther
The Freedom of
a Christian
Kepler
Epitome IV