The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

Newton, Isaac, 23-24, 30, 75, 89, 107

Niauching, 46

Nibelungenlied, 32

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 10, 19, 26, 28, 30, 50, 73, 78, 88, 89

Occam,William of, 18

Odyssey (Homer), 32, 83

Oedipus, 15

Olympus, 41

Omar Khayyam, 16, 48, 54, 68, 72, 84

On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs (Copernicus), 20, 116

Organon (Aristotle), 17

Othello (Shakespeare), 53, 85

Othello (Tate), 51

Outline of History,The (Wells), 66, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88

Outline of Science,The (Thomson), 66, 82

Ovid, 54

Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 107

Paganini, Niccolò, 107

Palestrina, Giovanni Perluigi da, 73, 107

Paolo (Malatesta), 50

Paradise, 21, 50

Paris, 48, 104

Parthenon, 36, 70, 110

Pascal, Blaise, 75

Passion According to St. Matthew (Bach), 75

Pax Romana, 111

Pearson, Karl, 28

Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 79, 87

Peloponnesian War, 37, 110

Penelope, 70

Penguin Island (France), 79, 87

Pericles, 11, 70, 75, 106, 110

Perseus (Cellini), 73

Persia, 48

Peter I (the Great), Czar of Russia, 106

Petrarch, 54, 57

Pheidias, 70, 107, 110

Philemon, 41

Philip II, King of Spain, 74

Pickwick Papers,The (Dickens), 79, 87

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 5, 16, 73

Plato, 13-16, 21, 25, 30, 65, 70, 73, 81, 83, 91, 101, 107, 110

Pliny the Elder, 111

Plutarch, 52, 68, 70-71, 83

Poe, Edgar Allan, 54, 68, 80, 88, 107

poets, ten “greatest,” 31-63

Poincaré, Jules Henri, 28

Pompadour, Madame de, 2

Pope, Alexander, 51

Porta, Giacomo della, 115

Portinari, Beatrice, 48-51

Portraits of the 18th Century (Sainte Beuve), 76, 86

Poseidon, 37

Poussin, Nicolas, 75, 114

Praxiteles, 70, 107

Principia (Newton), 24

Principles of Psychology (James), 67-68, 82

printing press, development of, 104, 113-14

“progress,” definition of, 90-92

Prometheus, 57, 70, 99

Psalms, 34-36

psychology, 15, 24, 101

“pure reason,” Kant’s critique of, 27-28

Purgatory, 50

Puritans, 52, 74

Pushkin, Aleksandr, 107

Pyramids, 107

Quarterly Review, 56

Quartet in D Major (Mozart), 75

Rabelais, François, 68, 72, 74, 81, 85, 114

Ramayana, 32

Ramus, Petrus, 18, 25

Raphael, 57, 73, 107

rationalism, 28

reason, human, 8-9

Reformation, 73-74, 114-15

Rembrandt, 75, 107, 114

Renaissance, 16-17, 21, 73-75, 114-15

Renaissance in Italy,The (Burckhardt), 73

Republic (Plato), 14-16, 83

Reynolds, Joshua, 76, 107

Richelieu, Cardinal, 74

Rights of Man,The (Paine), 60

Robinson, James Harvey, 6, 72, 76, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 106

Rodin,Auguste, 76

Rolland, Romain, 80, 88

Rome, ancient, 17-18, 42, 60, 69-71, 73, 110-11

Romney, George, 76

Romulus, 15

Rossini, Gioacchino, 77

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 26, 57, 86, 117

Royal Society of Great Britain, 22

Rubaiyat (Omar Khayyam), 48, 84

Rubens, Peter Paul, 75, 107, 114

Russia, 31, 77, 79, 116

Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 76, 86

Salambo (Flaubert), 79, 87

Sand, George, 77

Santayana, George, 25

Sappho, 54

Saul, King of Israel, 34

Savery, Thomas, 115

Schopenhauer,Arthur, 28, 30, 78, 87, 107

Schubert, Franz, 77

Schumann, Robert, 77

science, progress in, 100-101

Scotland, 97

secularism, origin of, 21

Seneca, 18

Sesshiu, 107

Severn, Joseph, 56

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 51

Shakespeare,William, 11, 14, 25, 41, 51-54, 55, 57, 60, 81, 85, 107, 114-15

Shelley, Mary, 58-59

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 56-59, 78, 87, 91, 107

Shotwell, James Thomson, 42

skepticism, Kantian philosophy as alternative to, 28

Sketch of a Tableau of the Progress of the Human Spirit (Condorcet), 89

Smith, Adam, 76, 86

Smith, P., 85

socialism, 15, 30, 116

social organization, progress in, 95-96

Socrates, 12, 15, 37, 70, 91, 107, 110, 111

Solon, 106

Sonnets (Shakespeare), 53

Sophocles, 41, 54, 58, 70, 83, 110

Spain, 71, 74-75, 112, 114

speech, development of, 93

Spencer, Herbert, 10, 30

Spengler, Oswald, 74, 80, 88, 104

Spenser, Edmund, 57

Spinoza, Baruch, 19, 23, 25, 30, 75, 86, 107, 114

steam engine, 115-16

Sterne, Laurence, 76, 86

Stoicism, Stoics, 12, 18

Story of Civilization,The (Durant), 1, 105

Stravinsky, Igor, 107

Summae (Thomas Aquinas), 17, 19

Sumner,William Graham, 68, 82

Swift, Jonathan, 76, 86

Symonds, John Addington, 73, 84

Tacitus, 111

Tagore, Rabindranath, 5-6, 107

Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 6, 72, 76, 78, 84, 85, 86, 87, 111

Taj Mahal, 72, 107, 112

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 76

Talthybius, 37, 39-40

Tamerlane, 24

T’ang Dynasty, 110, 117

Tarde, Jean-Gabriel de, 10

Tasso, Torquato, 54

Tate, Nahum, 51

Temple at Jerusalem, 35

Temple prison, 26, 117

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 54, 78, 87

Thackeray,William Makepeace, 79, 87

Theater of Dionysius, 36

theology, 15, 16, 19

“thinker,” definition of, 11

thinkers, ten “greatest,” 8-30

Thirty Years’War, 74

Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 18-20, 30, 72

Thomson, J. A., 66, 82

Thoreau, Henry David, 79, 88

Thucydides, 57, 70, 83

Thutmose III, King of Egypt, 108

Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 53, 85

Titian, 107