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 assumptions? Nikolai Lobachevsky: Non-Euclidean Geometry and Euclid's Fifth Axiom - Kronecker Wallis
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 one point, Odysseus must steer his ship between two perils: a sea monster named Scylla and a whirlpool named Charybdis. The whirlpool was probably inspired … Continue reading Homer’s Odyssey: Scylla and Charybdis
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
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
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
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, businessman, and spy. He was one of the most important proponents of the English novel, and he was also an important political pamphleteer. He was born in 1660 (the year of the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy)
The Project Gutenberg eBook of "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin."
