TY - BOOK AU - Bacon,Francis AU - Descartes,René AU - Spinoza,Benedictus de AU - Adler,Mortimer Jerome AU - Fadiman,Clifton AU - Goetz,Philip W. ED - Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc. TI - Great books of the Western world T2 - Great books of the Western world SN - 9780852295311 (set) AV - AC1 .G72 1990 U1 - 081 22 PY - 1990/// CY - Chicago PB - Encyclopædia Britannica KW - Anthologies KW - sears N1 - Advancement of learning -- Novum Organum -- New Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon; Rules for the direction of the mind -- Discourse on the method -- Meditations on first philosophy -- Objections against the meditations and replies -- The geometry / René Descartes; Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult N2 - Presents works by sixteenth-century English philosopher Francis Bacon, seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes, and seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, and includes biographical introductions ER -