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The Greatest Books of All Time
- airbreather 4y agoNo Foundation and Empire in top 300
- soledades 4y ago…ok?
- airbreather 4y agoWell I enjoyed Pippi Longstocking, but I wouldn't have thought it would have got into the top 300 and F&E didn't.
- tuatoru 4y agoList seems to be nearly all novels, with a few plays and poems. No Euclid's Geometry, no Herodotus Histories, no Bible or Koran, no Samuelson's Economics or Smith's Wealth of Nations, no Plato's Republic, no Communist Manifesto, no Leviathan or Rights of Man, no On the Origin of Species. Just off the top of my head. All of those and more are arguably in the top 100 greatest books of of all time.
- xyzwave 4y agoEuclid’s Elements was the book; Euclidean geometry is defined within it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry?wprov=sfti1
- yucky 4y agoThis reads like a list put together by a well-meaning college freshman.