The story of Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) is rarely told. I believe he is a figure from the past that is in need of rescue because he basically is perhaps the first person to envision a dynamic universe building upon Copernicus’ work. His essential theory saw the universe with many worlds and suns basically as we […]

Aristotle The Athenian Constitution A Treatise on Government The Categories On the Art of Poetry The Poetics of Aristotle The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England Caesar Caesar’s Commentaries (in Latin)  Cicero First Oration of Circero Against Catiline Cicero’s Tusculan Disputatuions; Also, Treatises on the Nature of […]

On Liberty – By John Stuart Mill. With an Introduction by W. L. Courtney, LL.D. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. London and Felling-on-Tyne New York and Melbourne [Pg v] To the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings—the […]

  Well Obama won with a popular vote of 59.6 to 56.9 million. The Electoral votes was 303 to 206 (29 not assigned). This should be no surprise. Our model has long shown the rise of the Democrats as we go into this economic turmoil as the Republicans have been captured by the Religious Right […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved August 16th, 2012 The Mayan Discovery of Time WELL there has been a flood of questions about the statement regarding the Maya in my recent post: “Sadly the Maya 2012 target will not put us out of our misery. We will survive the hype.” The book I am finishing […]

THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS, OUT OF THE FIRST SIX ANNALS OF TACITUS; WITH HIS ACCOUNT OF GERMANY, AND LIFE OF AGRICOLA TRANSLATED BY THOMAS GORDON, AND EDITED BY ARTHUR GALTON.   “Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui Promis et celas, aliusque et idem Nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma Visere maius.” CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE ANNALS, BOOK I […]

THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS; WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, NOTES, SUPPLEMENTS, &c. BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ. Præcipuum munus annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis dictis factisque ex posteritate et infamiâ metus sit. TACITUS, Annales, iii. s. 65. A NEW EDITION, WITH THE AUTHOR’S LAST CORRECTIONS. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. VIII. […]

19 BC THE AENEID by Virgil BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV BOOK V BOOK VI BOOK VII BOOK VIII BOOK IX BOOK X BOOK XI BOOK XII BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore. Long […]

L. ANNAEUS SENECA, ON BENEFITS   By Seneca   Edited by Aubrey Stewart PREFACE Seneca, the favourite classic of the early fathers of the church and of the Middle Ages, whom Jerome, Tertullian, and Augustine speak of as “Seneca noster,” who was believed to have corresponded with St. Paul, and upon whom [Footnote: On the […]

ALCIBIADES II   by An Imatator of Plato (see Appendix II) Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX II. ALCIBIADES II APPENDIX II. The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of […]