World
The whole of created or existing things, the cosmos, and its origin and order.
Works to read
- On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius, c. 55 BCE · Great Books
- New Astronomy and The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, 1609-1619 · Great Books
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977
- Timaeus by Plato, c. 360 BCE · Great Books
- Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle, 4th century BCE · Great Books
- On the Heavens by Aristotle, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543 · Great Books
- On the Magnet (De Magnete) by William Gilbert, 1600 · Great Books
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley, 1710 · Great Books
- Metamorphoses by Ovid, 8 CE
- The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (with Rustichello da Pisa), c. 1298–1300
- Poems, in Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, 1807
Passages
From the texts
The world is both Janus and Jupiter; also the earth is Juno, and Mater Magna, and Ceres.
— Augustine of Hippo, City of God
Now since the universe is perceptible it must be regarded as a particular; for everything that is perceptible subsists, as we know, in matter.
— Aristotle, On the Heavens
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