Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues’ theorem, the Desargues graph, and ...
Continue Reading →Modern Library edition The Platonic Theology is a work consisting of eighteen books by Marsilio Ficino. Ficino wrote it between 1469 and 1474 and it ...
Continue Reading →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This ...
Continue Reading →I quattro libri dell’architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), written in Italian. It was ...
Continue Reading →Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, “A little, true book, not less beneficial ...
Continue Reading →A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation is a work that was written by St. Thomas More while imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534. ...
Continue Reading →The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola (Latin original: Exercitia spiritualia), composed 1522–1524, are a set of Christian meditations, contemplations, and prayers written by Ignatius ...
Continue Reading →The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola (Latin original: Exercitia spiritualia), composed 1522–1524, are a set of Christian meditations, contemplations, and prayers written by Ignatius ...
Continue Reading →In Praise of Folly, also translated as The Praise of Folly (Latin: Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium; Greek title: Μωρίας ἐγκώμιον (Morias egkomion); Dutch title: ...
Continue Reading →The Council of Constance was a 15th-century ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance in ...
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