Famous books since 1492
By: Robert B. Downs.
Series: Everyday handbooks
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Best books.
Other titles: Molders of the modern mind.
Notes: Formerly published under the title: Molders of the modern mind.

Bibliographical notes: p. 372-386.
Table of contents: title: New world explorer. Letter of Christopher Columbus concerning newly discovered islands / Columbus -- Bugbear of bigots. The praise of folly / Erasmus -- Vision of never-never land. Utopia / More -- Church vs. state. An address to the Christian nobility of the German nation / Luther -- Realities of politics. The prince / Machiavelli -- Master theologian. Institutes of the Christian religion / Calvin -- Sun-centered universe. Concerning the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Copernicus -- Father of scientific anatomy. On the structure of the human body / Vesalius -- The well-ordered state. The six books of the state / Bodin -- Discoverer of man. Essays / Montaigne -- Classic of experimental science. On the loadstone, magnetic bodies and on the great magnet the earth / Gilbert -- The great enigma. Hamlet / Shakespeare -- Pursuit of knowledge. On the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and human / Bacon -- Idealist vs. realist. Don Quixote de la Mancha / Cervantes -- Lawmaker for the universe. The new astronomy and harmony of the world / Kepler -- Creator of the law of nations. On the law of war and peace / Grotius -- Birth of experimental medicine. Anatomical exercise on the motion of the heart and blood in animals / Harvey -- Explorer of outer space. Dialogue on the two chief systems of the world, the Ptolemaic and the Copernican / Galileo -- Beginning of modern scientific methods. Discourse on the method of rightly conducting the reason and seeking the truth in the science / Descartes -- Liberty without license. Areopagitica : a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicenc’d printing, in the Parlament of England / Milton -- Advocate of authoritarianism. Leviathan or the matter, forme and power of a commonwealth ecclesiasticall and civill / Hobbes -- First modern chemist. The sceptical chymist: or chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes / Boyle -- Observer of the invisible.  Micrographia : some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon -- Epic of Puritanism.  The pilgrim’s progress / Bunyan -- Mechanics of the universe. Mathematical principiles of natural philosophy / Newton -- Apologist  for revolution. Two treatises of government / Locke -- The complete skeptic. Historical and critical dictionary / Bayle -- First microbe hunter. Letters to the Royal Society of England / Leeuwenhoek -- Man alone. Robinson Crusoe / Defoe -- Scientific historian. The new science / Vico -- The damned human race. Gulliver’s travels / Swift -- Father of systematic biology. System of nature / Linnaeus -- Pioneer political philosopher. Spirit of the laws / Montesquieu -- Spirit of enlightenment. Encyclopedia, or systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts / Diderot -- The great lexicographer. Dictionary of the English language  / Johnson -- Apostle of revolt. The social contract, or principles of political right / Rousseau -- Genius of mockery. Philosophical dictionary / Voltaire -- Protector and defender of humanity. On crimes and punishment / Beccaria -- Systematizer of laws. Commentaries on the laws of England / Blackstone -- Prelude to rebellion. A summary view of the rights of British America / Jefferson -- Prophet of modern capitalism. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Smith -- Manifesto for revolution. Common sense, addressed to the inhabitants of America / Paine -- Greatest English historian. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Gibbon -- Fight for federation. The federalist : a collection of essays written in favor of the new Constitution / Hamilton, Madison, and Jay -- Pioneer of modern geology. Theory of the Earth; or, an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe / Hutton -- Architect of modern chemistry. Elementary treatise of chemistry / Lavoisier -- The great reformer. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation / Bentham -- Apostle of modern conservatism. Reflections on the French Revolution / Burke -- The great  American success story. Autobiography / Franklin -- First of a new genus. Vindication of the rights of women / Wollstonecraft -- Philosophical anarchist. Enquiry concerning the principles of political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness / Godwin -- Vision of perpetual progress. Sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind / Condorcet -- Magna carta for a united nations. Eternal peace; a philosophical proposal / Kant -- Discoverer of vaccination. An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the Cow Pox / Leaner -- Overcrowded world. Essay on the principle of population / Malthus -- Mathematical astronomer. Celestial mechanics / Laplace -- Educational innovator. How Gertrude teaches her children / Pestalozzi -- Master race and nationalism. Addresses to the German nation / Fichte -- Birth of the atomic theory. A new system of chemical philosophy / Dalton -- Trail blazer for British socialism. A new view of society, or, essays on the formation of the human character / Owen -- Ideologist for totalitarianism. The philosophy of right / Hegel -- Champion of the American language. An American dictionary of the English language / Webster -- Interpreter and synthesizer. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation / Lyell -- Religion of humanity. Course of positive philosophy / Comte -- Master military strategist. On war / Clausewitz -- Aristocrat defending democracy. Democracy in America / Tocqueville -- The jolly old pedagogue. Eclectic readers / McGuffey -- Electrical wizard. Experimental researches in electricity / Farraday -- The case of the wandering boulders. Studies on glaciers / Agassiz -- Attack on the state. What is property? Or an inquiry into the principle of right and of government / Proudon -- Great man theory of history.  On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history / Carlyle -- Spokesman for the new America. Essays / Emerson -- Universal man. Cosmos / Humboldt -- Indestructible energy. On the conservation of force/ Helmholtz -- High priests of the proletariat. The communist manifesto / Marx & Engels -- Terrible power of the meek. Resistance to civil government / Thoreau -- The little woman who started the big war. Uncle Tom’s cabin / Stowe -- Battle for the underdog. Hard times / Dickens -- Explorer of unseen worlds. Treatise on the fermentation known as lactic / Pasteur -- Survival through natural selection. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / Darwin -- House divided. Political debates … in the celebrated campaign of 1858, in Illinois / Lincoln and Douglas -- Upholder of individualism. On liberty / Mill -- Romantic humanitarianism. Les miserables / Hugo -- Riddle of heredity. Experiments in plant hybridization / Mendel -- Vovage extraordinaire. From the Earth to the moon / Verne -- Founder of antiseptic surgery. On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery / Lister -- Pluck and luck, or, how to marry the boss’ daughter. Ragged dick / Alger -- Great democrat. Democratic vistas / Whitman -- Greatest American scientist. On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances / Gibbs -- Universal panacea. Progress and poverty: an inquiry in the cause of industrial depressions, and of increase of want with increase of wealth; the remedy / George -- Birth of the new woman. A doll’s house / Ibsen -- Bacillus hunter. The etiology of tuberculosis / Koch -- Rugged individualist. The man versus the state / Spencer -- Blond beasts and supermen. Beyond good and evil / Nietzsche -- Socialism without Marx – a dream of utopia. Looking backward, 2000-1887 / Bellamy -- Program of permeation and persuasion, or, the inevitability of gradualness. Fabian essays in socialism / Shaw, Webb, et al -- Exponent of maritime might. The influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783 / Mahan -- Interpreter of magic and myth. The golden bough / Frazer -- The great wide open spaces. The significance of the frontier in American history / Turner -- Most civilized Englishman. Studies in the psychology of sex / Ellis -- Social Darwinism in reverse. The theory of the leisure class / Veblen -- Education in a democracy. School and society / Dewey -- Wedding of geography and politics. The geographical pivot of history / Mackinder -- Efficiency expert. Principles of scientific management / Taylor -- Conquest of freedom. The new freedom / Wilson -- Harbinger of the atomic age. Relativity, the special and general theory / Einstein -- Dictatorship of the proletariat. The state and revolution / Lenin -- The Versailles peacemakers. The economic consequences of the peace / Keynes -- Der fuehrer. Mein kampf / Hitler -- Doyen of experimental physiologists. Conditioned reflexes : an investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex / Pavlov -- Eros and death. Civilization and its discontents / Freud.