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Mon Jan 7 09:25:54 EST 2019
Went to bed late, and slept poorly.
High of forty-eight today.
Snow possible, with up to a half-inch of accumulation, but likely changing to rain later.
Work:
- Follow up on Voyager PO approval weirdness
Done.
- 2 PM meeting about PO approvals
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Gray and windy, but now snow or rain yet.
Home:
- Go to bed not late
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-46348917
> More than 100 years ago acoustic mirrors along the coast of England were used to detect the sound of approaching German zeppelins.
> The concave concrete structures were designed to pick up sound waves from enemy aircraft, making it possible to predict their flight trajectory, giving enough time for ground forces to be alerted to defend the towns and cities of Britain.
> Invented by Maj William Sansome Tucker and known as sound mirrors, their development continued until the mid-1930s, when radar made them obsolete.
https://ask.metafilter.com/330012/How-to-get-a-classical-education-at-40-years-old
https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpO_X3dhaqUL1nbeapfa3mf3KCs1DwgOH
Freshman Year
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- Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
- Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
- Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes, Ajax
- Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
- Euripides: Hippolytus, Bacchae
- Herodotus: Histories
- Aristophanes: Clouds
- Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
- Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
- Euclid: Elements
- Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
- Plutarch: “Lycurgus,” “Solon”
- Ptolemy: Almagest
- Pascal: Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids
- Nicomachus: Arithmetic
- Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry
- Harvey: Motion of the Heart and Blood
- Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, Gay-Lussac, Spemann, Stears, J.J. Thomson, Mendeleyev, Berthollet, J.L. Proust
Sophomore Year
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- Hebrew Bible
- New Testament
- Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
- Apollonius: Conics
- Virgil: Aeneid
- Plutarch: “Caesar,” “Cato the Younger,” “Antony,” “Brutus”
- Epictetus: Discourses, Manual
- Tacitus: Annals
- Ptolemy: Almagest
- Plotinus: The Enneads
- Augustine: Confessions
- Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed
- Anselm: Proslogium
- Aquinas: Summa Theologiae
- Dante: Divine Comedy
- Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
- Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
- Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
- Kepler: Epitome IV
- Livy: Early History of Rome
- Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
- Montaigne: Essays
- Viète: Introduction to the Analytical Art
- Bacon: Novum Organum
- Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and Sonnets
- Poems by: Marvell, Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
- Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method
- Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections
- Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
- Haydn: Quartets
- Mozart: Operas
- Beethoven: Third Symphony
- Schubert: Songs
- Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
- Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Junior Year
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- Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Galileo: Two New Sciences
- Hobbes: Leviathan
- Descartes: Meditations, Rules for the
- Direction of the Mind
- Milton: Paradise Lost
- La Rochefoucauld: Maximes
- La Fontaine: Fables
- Pascal: Pensées
- Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
- Eliot: Middlemarch
- Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise
- Locke: Second Treatise of Government
- Racine: Phèdre
- Newton: Principia Mathematica
- Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay on Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
- Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
- Hume: Treatise of Human Nature
- Rousseau: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
- Molière: Le Misanthrope
- Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Mozart: Don Giovanni
- Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma
- Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter
- Dedekind: Essays on the Theory of Numbers
- Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America
- Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist
- Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Wordsworth: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
- Essays by: Young, Taylor, Euler, D. Bernoulli, Ørsted, Ampère, Faraday, Maxwell
Senior Year
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- Supreme Court Opinions
- Goethe: Faust
- Darwin: Origin of Species
- Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, “Logic” (from the Encyclopedia)
- Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels
- Kafka: The Metamorphosis
- Plato: Phaedrus
- Tocqueville: Democracy in America
- Documents from American History
- Hamilton, Jay, and Madison The Federalist
- Lincoln: Selected speeches
- F. Douglass: Selected speeches
- Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
- Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
- Marx: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology
- Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov
- Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Melville: Benito Cereno
- O’Connor: Selected stories
- William James: Psychology, Briefer Course
- Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
- Freud: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
- Booker T. Washington: Selected writings
- Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
- Husserl: Crisis of the European Sciences
- Heidegger: Basic Writings
- Einstein: Selected papers
- Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Faulkner: Go Down Moses
- Flaubert: Un Coeur Simple
- Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
- Poems by: Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Valéry, Rimbaud
- Essays by: Faraday, J. J. Thomson, Millikan, Minkowski, Rutherford, Davisson, Schrödinger, Bohr, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Mendel, Boveri, Sutton, Morgan, Beadle & Tatum, Sussman, Watson & Crick, Jacob & Monod, Hardy
Servings: grains 0/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 0/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: carrots, spinach, banana, orange, two eggs, coffee
Lunch: tomato, carrots, apple, orange, yogurt, coffee
Dinner: pizza
140/80
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