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From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th century, the Great Books are all the introduction you’ll ever need to the ideas, stories and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization.
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This site contains links to many of the most pivotal works in the history of science and medicine (not to mention theology, philosophy and literature). Researchers will find online full-texts by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, Nicomachus, Galen, Aquinas, William Harvey, Descartes, Newton, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Freud and Albert Einstein. Browsers beware, many of the links are broken/bad. There is no search engine, and the authors are indexed chronologically.