The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
7 best books like The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 (Alfred W. Crosby): Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, The Riddles of Epsilon, A Presocratics Reader, The World of Late Antiquity 150-750, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0679723951 |
In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0143039881 |
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521477352 |
To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he was as a...
| Author | Christine Morton-Shaw |
| ISBN | 0060728213 |
Something dark has awoken on the remote island of Lume
Jess is not pleased when her parents drag her off to live on the weird little island of Lume. But then she encounters an eerie presence in an abandoned cottage, and her anger turns to fear when it begins to lead her through a series of creepy riddles....
| Author | Patricia Curd |
| ISBN | 0872203263 |
"What are the Isles of the Blest? Sun and Moon. What is the oracle at Delphi? The tetractys, which is the harmony in which the Sirens sing."
Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras
This is a brilliant but compact collection of Presocratic thought. If you haven't yet read much of the early philosophers...
| Author | Peter R.L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0393958035 |
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization."
These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared...
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
| ISBN | 0140192468 |
An extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split...
