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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. 26-32. Selections from Non-Euclidean Geometry Manual

Mathematics & Natural Science Seminar Reading List
Revised 10/08/07

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 73-130; Book II, Aphorisms 1-10, 11-13 (para. 1 only of each), 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)(Donahue Xerox, pp. 3-16)
14. Darwin, The Origin of Species, I-III; IV, first section on Natural Selection (Penguin Edition)
15. Darwin, The Origin of Species, IV, XIV
16. Freud, Three Case Histories, "Psychoanalysis: Freudian School," "Notes upon a Case of Obessional Neurosis (1909)" (The Rat Man) 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.