The Illiad and Odessey, Homer. 8th Century BCE
Histories, Herodotus. 5th Century BCE
The Republic, Plato. 380 BCE
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, 167
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli. 1532
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Nicolaus Copernicus. 1543
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton. 1687
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith. 1776
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx. 1848
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin. 1859
