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I was listening to SWB's lecture on science in the classical curriculum this week. She mentions a reading list of science books recommended for rhetoric level and adults.

 

I'm not finding this in the site resources section. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this reading list?

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I've been digging and found this section, "A Maths and Sciences Great Books List for Beginners" in an article titled, "Academic Excellence, Grades 9-12." (the math and science is 2/3 down the page)

 

SCIENCE


 

Ninth grade: Biology: A Self-Teaching Guide, Steven Garber

Tenth grade: Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide, Dinah L. Moche


Eleventh grade: Chemistry: Concepts and Problems: A Self-Teaching Guide, Houk and Post


Twelfth grade: Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide, Karl Kuhn, or Saxon

 

 

 

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A Maths and Sciences “Great Books†List for Beginners

 

 

Ninth grade

Hippocrates, Aphorisms

Euclid, Elements of Geometry

Aristotle, Physics

 

 

Tenth grade:

Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heaveny Spheres

Johannes Kepler, Harmonies of the World

Galileo Galilei, Dialogues concerning the Two Chief World Systems

 

 

Eleventh grade:

Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist

Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica

Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry

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Perhaps she's referring to the list in the science section of the WTM. There's two really, one on p. 515 and one on pp 521 - 524 (I have the 1999 edition.)

 

I got a nice email back from someone at PHP and this was exactly what she was referring to. I guess I was making it more complicated than it needed to be.

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