Euclid's Elements
300 BC · 308 pages
Five assumptions about points and lines, and from them Euclid derives hundreds of theorems, up to the proof that the primes never run out. You finish knowing what a proof is.
★ 7.6
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The Complete Writings
300 BC · 336 pages
Zhuang Zhou dreams he is a butterfly and wakes unsure which one is dreaming. The jokes, tall tales, and arguments with logicians that follow work to loosen your grip on your own categories.
★ 7.5
Mencius
300 BC · 320 pages
Seeing a child about to fall into a well, anyone feels alarm before thinking. Human nature is therefore good, Mencius argues, and a ruler who starves his people forfeits the throne.
★ 7.3