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Mathematics & Natural Science Tutorial Reading List
Revised 12/06/04

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.

You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Definitions 1-10
2. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Definitions 11-23
3. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Postulates and Common Notions
4. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 1, 2; construction of isosceles and scalene triangles
5. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 3-5
6. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 6-9
7. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 10-12
8. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 13-16
9. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 17-20
10. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 21-24
11. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 25-27
12. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 28-30
13. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 31-34
14. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 35-39
15. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 40-43
16. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 44-46
17. Euclid, Elements, Book I, Propositions 47, 48
18. Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels, Definitions 1-10
19. Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels, Proposition 16
20. Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels, Proposition 16
21. Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels, Propositions 17, 18
22. Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels, Propositions 18, 19
23. Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels, Propositions 19, 20
24. Lobachevski Theory of Parallels, Propositions 21, 22
25. Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels, Propositions 23, 24
26.-32. Selections from Non-Euclidean Geometry Manual

Mathematics & Natural Science Seminar Reading List
Revised 12/7/11

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.
You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, I-III
2. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, IV-VI
3. Plato, Timaeus, beginning-57d
4. Aristotle*, Physics, Book I, Chapter 1 (184a10-184b14); Book II (192b9-200b7)
5. Aristotle, Physics, Book III, Chapters 1-3 (200b8-202b27); Book IV, Chapters 10-14 (217b29-224a17)
6. Aristotle, Physics, Book IV, Chapters 1-5 (208a27-213a10), 8 (214b11-216b20); Book III, Chapters 4-6 (202b30-207a31)
7. Aristotle, Physics, Book VIII, Chapters 1 (250b9-252b7), 4-7 (254b7-261b26), 9-10 (265a13-267b26)
8. Bacon, The New Organon, "The Great Instauration" and Preface (Open Court, pp.3-41; Library of Liberal Arts, pp.3-37) Book I, Aphorisms 1-70
9. Bacon, The New Organon, Book I, Aphorisms 73-75, 80-84, 88, 92-106, 115-130; Book II, Aphorisms 1-10, 11 (first paragraph), 12 (first two paragraphs), 13 (first paragraph), 14-20, 52
10. Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
11. Descartes, Discourse on Method, I-IV
12. Descartes, Discourse on Method, V-VI
13. Newton, Principia, Preface (to the 1st Edition); Definitions; Scholium (on Space and Time); and Laws of Motion (up to Corollaries)(that is, Donahue Xerox, pp. 3-31)
14. Darwin, The Origin of Species,  First edition, Introduction; I-III; IV, first section on Natural Selection (Penguin Edition only, pp. 65-136, ISBN#978 0-14-043205-3); Illustrations to Accompany the Reading of Darwin (available in the St. John’s Bookstore)
15. Darwin, The Origin of Species, IV, XIV
16. Freud, Three Case Histories, "Notes upon a Case of Obessional Neurosis (1909)" (The Rat Man);
"Psychoanalysis: Freudian School," Excerpt from 1926 Encyclopedia Britannica (Available in St. John's Bookstore.)

* The numbers in parentheses for Aristotle's Physics readings are marginal line numbers derived from Immanuel Bekker's Berlin Edition; they are called "Bekker numbers" and appear in many editions.