Rely on the ISBN to be sure you are getting the correct edition.
Students should purchase the paperback versions of the texts, not electronic ones.
Any student for whom acquiring these [core] texts is a significant financial burden should email [email protected] with a request to use the First-Year Seminar book funds to acquire books.
Spring Semester
- Genesis, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, 5th edition, ed. Michael D. Coogan, Oxford. ISBN: 978-0190276089.
- Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale, trans. Lenn Evan Goodman, University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226303109.
- Plato, Meno, trans. G.M.A. Grube, Hackett. ISBN: 978-0915144242.
- Max Weber, Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures, trans. Damion Searls, ed. Paul Reitter & Chad Wellmon, NYRB Classics ISBN: 978-0872206656.
- Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings, ed. Kate Lilley, Penguin. ISBN: 978-0140433722.
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage Books. ISBN: 978-0679741954.
- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, Beacon Press. ISBN: 978-0807006238.
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Mariner Books. ISBN: 978-0156628709.
Spring Reader Illustrations
Front cover images the “Suzhou Imitation” of Zhang Zeduan’s Along the River During the Qingming Festival, likely Ming dynasty era (1368–1644) in the style of Qiu Ying, ink and color on silk, held in the National Palace Museum, Tapei.
Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Ice age map of New York and New England from “Drainage of late Wisconsin glacial lakes and the morphology and late quaternary stratigraphy of the New Jersey-southern New England continental shelf and slope” by E. Uchupi, N. Driscoll, R. D. Ballard, and S. T. Bolmer, published in Marine Geology 172 (2001) p. 128.
The Garden of Early Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, ca. 1500, triptych oil painting on oak panel, held at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
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“Topographia Paradisi” from Arca Noë by Athanasius Kircher, 1675, woodcut, held in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, GC6 K6323 675a (A)
“Monte Ararat” from Turris Babel by Athanasius Kircher, 1679, woodcut, held in the New York Public Library, *OCM+ 93-6948
World map of al-Idrisi from a 1456 copy of the Kitab Rujar (the original text dates to 1154), manuscript held at Oxford's Bodleian Library as MS. Pococke 375 fol. 3v-4.
Physician preparing an elixir, folio from a 1224 manuscript of De Materia Medica by Pedanius Dioscorides, ca. 60 CE, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gallery 203
Map of the moon by Thomas Harriot, 1609
Sketches of the moon from Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei, 1610
Micrographia by Robert Hooke, 1665, copperplate engravings, microscope setup
Geometric optics
Dronefly
Fleas
Seaweed, Rosemary, and Sage
Cork
Garden City diagrams from To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform by Ebenezer Howard, 1898, published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd.
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Plan Voisin by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, 1925, © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC
Map of London by G.W. Bacon, ca. 1899