What to Read After Ptolemy's Almagest
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Books to read after Ptolemy's Almagest
The discourses of Epictetus
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science)
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
The Copernican Revolution
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Infinitesimal
Parmenides' lesson
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Enneads
The motivation manifesto
Clouds
Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language
Magnificent Obsession
The works of Archimedes
Fantastic Voyage
Don Giovanni
Manhattan Project
The Geometry of Rene Descartes
The Art of Living
Lives
Poetics
De rerum natura
More mathematical puzzles and diversions
The Mathematical Universe