1st update of Great Books may be the last // 60 volumes cover all of Western thinking

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 23, 1990| Author: Zay N. Smith | Copyright information

Let's put it this way:

When you leaf through the 37,000 pages of your new edition of Great Books of the Western World, you will search in vain for such old favorites as Fourier's "Analytical Theory of Heat" and Apollonius of Perga's "On Conic Sections."

But aha. You will find, for the first time, Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species and Bohr's "Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics."

Is anybody still out there?

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