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The Miller's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. These tales were supposedly stories that a group of pilgrims told each other as they were on their way from … Continue reading Geoffrey Chaucer: The Knight’s Tale and the Miller’s Tale |
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Here's an interlinear Greek/English translation: farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf Here's a series of videos: Euclid's elements: definitions, postulates, and axioms Euclid's Geometry was built on assumptions. But what if you altered one of those … Continue reading Euclid’s Elements |
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The Odyssey is an account of how Odysseus made his way home to his wife Penelope after the Trojan War. (The Trojan War itself was discussed in Homer's Iliad.) At … Continue reading Homer’s Odyssey: Scylla and Charybdis |
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Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences was published in French in 1637. It was later translated into Latin. This discourse is famous for Descartes' assertion Je pense, donc je suis (I think, therefore I am--cogito ergo sum). The discourse was intended to serve … Continue reading Rene Descartes: Discourse on the Method |
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Cancer Ward is a semiautobiographical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the Nobel Prize in Litrature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian … Continue reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward |
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (the Brothers Grimm) were German academics who studied the history of the German language and collected and published folktales. They popularized these "Grimms' Fairy Tales" through … Continue reading Snow White, the Brothers Grimm, and Tolkien |
