early works to 1800

Presents nine biographies from ancient Greece by Plutarch.

Examines the lives of twelve men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy.

Draws on the words, proofs, and diagrams of sixteenth-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus to examine the lasting impact his work had on intellectual history and his own beliefs about his theories and their importance.

Presents the travel narratives of four seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American colonists, which relate such experiences as capture by Native Americans and survey of a disputed boundary line. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an extensive selected bibliography.

Presents Galileo's scientific treatise, originally published in 1632, in which he uses the dialogue form to argue the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic, proving that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Presents an English translation of thirteenth-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's account of his travels throughout China, India, Persia, and other places.

Contains over seventy full-color plates of plants, flowers, and trees that thrived in the legendary German garden founded at Eichst?tt in the early seventeenth century.

Presents an unabridged reprint of the English translation of Galileo's astronomical and philosophical text in which he sets forth, in the form of dialogues, his theories about the motion of the Earth and planets.