Conceptual Timeline

 Part I - Born 9th cent. BC through 1860 AD

A stream of conceptual works of importance, those in blue constituting key tributaries, those in red constituting a rich flow

fl. 8-9th cent. BC	Homer	Iliad, Odyssey
fl. 7-8th cent. BC	Hesiod	Theogony, Works and Days
c.639-c.559 BC	Solon
c.636-c.546 BC	Thales
fl. 6th cent. BC	Sappho	Poems
c.628-551 BC	Zarathustra
c.610-545 BC	Anaximander
fl. 5-6th cent. BC	Lao-tzu	Tao Te Ching
fl. 5-6th cent. BC	Mahavira	Jainism
c.570-475 BC	Xenophanes	Elegaics
570-508 BC	Cleisthenes
c.560-c.480 BC	Pythagoras
c.556-c.468 BC	Simonides of Ceos	Human Imperfection
c.560-c.480 BC	Buddha, Gautama
551-479 BC	Confucious	Analects
c.545-540 BC	Deutero-Isaiah	Isaiah
fl. c.545 BC	Anaximenes
c.525-456 BC	Aeschylus	Orestea, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides, Libation Bearers
c.518-c.438 BC	Pindar	Pythian Odes
c.515-c.450 BC	Parmenides
c.500-428 BC	Anaxagoras
c.497-406 BC	Sophocles	Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, Philoctetes
c.490-c.430 BC	Zeno of Elea
c.490-c.420 BC	Protagoras
c.485-406 BC	Euripides	Alcestis, Medea, Hipploytus, Trojan Women, Electra, Bacchae
c. 484-c.424 BC	Herodotus	The Histories
c.484-c.424 BC	Empedocles
483-376 BC	Gorgias
fl. c.480 BC	Leucippus
fl. c.480 BC	Heraclitus
c.469-399 BC	Socrates
c.460-c.400 BC	Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian War
c.460-c.370 BC	Hippocrates
c.460-c.370 BC	Democritus
455-365 BC	Antisthenes
c.448-380 BC	Aristophanes	Birds, Clouds, Frogs
c.444-c.357 BC	Xenophon	Anabasis, Oeconomicus
436-338 BC	Isocrates	Areopagitica, On the Peace
c.435-c.366 BC	Aristippus
c.428-c.347 BC	Plato	Republic, Symposium, Timaeus, Theaeteus, Phaedrus, Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Sophist, Parmenides, Laws
c.412-c.320 BC	Diogenes
c.408-c.355 BC	Eudoxus
c.385-322 BC	Demosthenes	Phillipics, On the Crown, First Olynthiac Oration
384-322 BC	Aristotle	Nichomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics, Rhetoric, Metaphysics, Categories, On Interpretation, Prior & Posterior Analytics, Physics, De Anima, On the Soul
fl. 3-4th cent. BC	Sun Tzu	The Art of War
c.372-c.289 BC	Mencius	Book of Mencius
c.371-c.286 BC	Theophrastus
c.365-c.275 BC	Pyrrho of Elis
c.342-291 BC	Menander	The Grouch, The Girl from Samos, The Arbitration
c.341-c.270 BC	Epicurus	Epicureanism
c.340 BC	Qu Yuan	Encountering Sorrow
c.336-c.261 BC	Zeno of Citium	Stoicism
331-232 BC	Cleanthes
c.325-c.275 BC	Euclid	The Elements
c.310-230 BC	Aristarchus
fl.300 BC	Chuang Tzu	The Cloud of Unknowing
c.290-212 BC	Archimedes
fl.272 BC	Theocritus	Idyls
c.254-c.184 BC	Plautus	Amphitryon, The Menaechmus Twins, The Pot of Gold, Pseudolus, Casina
234-149 BC	Cato the Elder
214-128 BC	Carneades
c.200-c.118 BC	Polybius	Histories
c.190-c.120 BC	Hipparchus
c.190-159 BC	Terence	Phormio, Andria, The Brothers
106-43 BC	Cicero	Offices, On Friendship, Academica, Tusculan Disputations
100-44 BC	Julius Caesar	The Conquest of Gaul
c.95-55 BC	Lucretius	On the Nature of Things
95-46 BC	Cato the Younger
86-34 BC	Sallust	History of the Jugurthine War, Conspiracy of Catiline
84-54 BC	Catullus	Lesbia
70-19 BC	Virgil	The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics
65-8 BC	Horace	Odes, Epistles, The Art of Poetry
c.64 BC-17	Livy	From the City's Foundation
63 BC-21	Strabo	Geography
43 BC-18	Ovid	Metamorpheses, The Art of Love
c.20 BC-c.50	Philo of Alexandria
4 BC-65	Seneca	Moral Essays, Moral Letters, The Apocolocyntos
c.4 BC-c.29	Jesus Christ
c.5-c.89	John, St.	Gospel of John
c.7-c.67	Paul, St.	Romans, Corinthians I & II, Ephesians, Hebrews
c.11-66	Petronius Arbiter	Satyricon
28-79	Pliny the Elder	Natural History
c.30-c.101	Clement I, St.	Epistles to the Corinthians
37-c.93	Flavius Josephus	The Jewish War, Jewish Antiquities
39-65	Lucan	Pharsalia
c.40-c.107	Ignatius of Antioch	Epistles to the Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Romans, Philadelphians, Smyrnaeans, Polycarp
c.40-c104	Martial	Epigrams, Book of Spectacles
c.46-c.120	Plutarch	Parallel Lives, Moralia
c.50-c.125	Epictetus	Discourses, Enchiridon, Manual
c.56-c.117	Tacitus	Annals, Histories, Germania, Agricola
c.60-130	Juvenal	Satires
c.69-c.155	Polycarp, St.	Epistle to the Philippians
c.69-c.140	Suetonius	The Divine Augustus, The Lives of the Caesars
c.100-c.175	Ptolemy	Almagest
c.100-c.160	Marcion
c.110-c.165	Justin Martyr	Dialogue with Trypho, A Jew, The Second Apology of Justin for the Christians
c.120-c.190	Lucian	On Salaried Posts in Great Houses
121-180	Marcus Aurelius	Meditations
c.130-200	Galen	On the Natural Faculties

c.150-c.215	Clement of Alexandria	Protrepticus, Paedagogus, Stromata
c.155-c.220	Tertullian	Apologeticum, De praescriptione haereticorum, De carne Christi
c.160-c.210	Sextus Empiricus	Outlines of Pyrrhonism
c.185-c.254	Origen	Treatise on First Principles, Contra Celsum
c.200-258	Cyprian	On the Unity of the Church
c.200-c.258	Novatian	De Trinitate
204-270	Plotinus	Enneads
c.213-273	Longinus	On the Sublime
c.216-c.276	Mani
233-309	Porphyry	On the Predicaments (Isagoge)
c.250-c.336	Arius
c.260-c.341	Eusebius	Ecclesiastical History
c.270-c.330	Iamblichus	On the Egyptian Mysteries
c.296-373	Athanasius, St.	Contra Gentes, Oratio de Incarnatione
c.300-c.373	Donatus the Great
c.329-379	Basil the Great, St.	On the Holy Spirit
c.339-97	Ambrose, St.	Epistles
c.347-420	Jerome, St.	The Vulgate
354-430	Augustine, St.	Confessions, City of God, On the Teacher, On Christian Doctrine, On the Spirit and the Letter, On Nature and Grace, On the Predestination of the Saints, On the Gift of Perseverance
c.360-c.440	Pelagius
c.396-c.469	Patrick, St.
c.410-485	Proclus	Elements of Theology
c.480-c.524	Boethius	On The Consolation of Philosophy
c.490-c.562	Procopius	The History of the Wars
c.540-604	Gregory the Great
570-632	Muhammad	Koran
573-621	Shotoku Taishi	Constitution
c.672-735	Bede, Venerable	Ecclesiastical History of the English People
c.676-c.780	John Damascene	An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
701-760	Li Bo
712-770	Du Fu	Poems
c.735-804	Alcuin
772-846	Bo Ju'yi
c. 810-877	Erigena, John Scotus	The Divisions of Nature
c.870-c.950	Al-Farabi
980-1037	Avicenna (Ibn Sina)	Canon of Medicine
1018-c.1078	Psellus, Michael	Chronographia
c.1021-c.1058	ibn Gabirol, Solomon	The Improvement of the Moral Qualities
c.1033-1109	Anselm, St.	Proslogion, Why God Became Man
c.1050-1122	Khayyam, Omar	Rubaiyat
1058-1111	al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid	The Deliverer from Error, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, The Revival of the Religious Sciences
c.1079-1142	Abelard, Peter	The Sentences
1090-1153	Bernard of Clairvaux, St.	On Loving God, On Consideration, On Grace and Free Will
c.1100-1155	Arnold of Brescia
1126-1198	Averroës (Ibn Rushd)	The Incoherence of the Incoherence
c.1130-1202	Joachim von Floris (Fiore)	Concordantia
1135-1204	Maimonides	Guide of the Perplexed
c.1160-1216	Innocent III	On the Contempt of the World
c.1150-c.1218	Villehardouin, Geoffroi de	De la conquête de Constantinople
c.1170-c.1240	Fibonacci, Leonardo	Practice of Geometry
1175?-1253	Grossteste, Robert	De intelligentiis, The Beginning of Forms
c.1182-1226	Francis of Assisi, St.
c.1200-1280	Albertus Magnus, St.	De mineralibus, De animalibus, De vegetabilis et plantis
1217-1274	Bonaventure, St.	The Journey of the Mind into God
c.1220-1292	Bacon, Roger	Opus maius, Opus minus, Opus tertium,Compendium of the Study of Philosophy, Compendium of the Study of Theology
1222-1282	Nichiren
1224-1274	Aquinas, Thomas	Summa Theologiae, On the Teacher, On Kingship, Proem to the Posterior Analytics, On the Principles of Nature, On Being and Essence, Summa Contra Gentiles
c.1254-1324	Marco Polo	The Travels of Marco Polo
c.1260-c.1327	Eckhart, Meister	Sermons
1265-1321	Dante	The Divine Comedy, On Monarchy, The New Life
c.1265-1308	Duns Scotus, John	Ordinatio
c.1285-c.1349	William of Occam	Sum of All Logic
1304-1374	Petrarch	Canzoniere, Epistolae, The Life of Solitude, The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
1313-1375	Boccaccio, Giovanni	Decameron, On the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods
1332-1406	Ibn Khaldun	Universal History
c.1333-c.1400	Froissart, Jean	Chronicles
c.1340-1400	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
c.1342-c.1416	Julian of Norwich	Revelations of Divine Love
c.1350-1415	Chrysoloras, Manuel	Comparison of the Old and New Rome
c.1355-1450	Plethon, George Gemistus	De Differentiis
c.1379-1471	Kempis, Thomas à	The Imitation of Christ
1401-1464	Nicholas of Cusa	On Learned Ignorance
1403-1472	Bessarion, John	Orations and letters to Christian princes against the Turks
1407-1457	Valla, Lorenzo	Concerning the Profession of the Religious, On Free Will
1433-1499	Ficino, Marsilio	Platonic Theology, Epistulae
1452-1519	Da Vinci, Leonardo	Notebooks
1463-1494	Pico della Mirandola	Conclusiones, Oration on the Dignity of Man
c.1466-1536	Erasmus	The Praise of Folly
1469-1527	Machiavelli, Nicolo	The Prince, Discourses
1473-1543	Copernicus, Nicolaus	On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1474-1533	Ariosto, Lodovico	Orlando Furioso
1475-1564	Michelangelo	Letters, Poems
1477-1558	Valeriano, Pierio	On the Infelicity of the Scholar
1478-1535	More, St. Thomas	Utopia
1478-1551	Guicciardini, Luigi	The Sack of Rome
1478-1529	Castiglione, Conte Baldassare	The Courtier
1483-1546	Luther, Martin	The Ninety-five Theses, Table Talk, Three Treatises
1483-1540	Guicciardini, Francesco	Ricordi, History of Italy
c.1495-1553	Rabelais, Francois	Gargantua and Pantagruel
1489-1556	Cranmer, Thomas	Book of Common Prayer
1491-1556	Ignatius Loyola, St.	Spiritual Exercises, Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
1493-1541	Paracelsus
c.1494-1566	Agricola, Georgius	De re metallica
c.1505-1572	Knox, John	The Order of Excommunication and Public Repentance, Treatise on Prayer
1506-1552	Francis Xavier, St.
1509-1564	Calvin, John	Institutes of the Christian Religion
c.1509-1553	Servetus, Michael	On the Errors of the Trinity, Restitution of Christianity
1511-1574	Vasari, Giorgio	Lives of the Artists

1515-1582	Teresa of Avila, St.	Way of Perfection, The Interior Castle, The Book of Foundations
1530-1563	Boétie, Étienne de la	Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
1533-1592	Montaigne, Michel de	Essays
1540-1603	Gilbert, William	On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
1542-1591	John of the Cross, St.	The Spiritual Canticle, The Ascent of Mt. Carmel, Dark Night of the Soul, The Living Flame of Love
1544-1595	Tasso, Torquato	Jerusalem Delivered, Poems

1546-1601	Brahe, Tycho
1547-1616	Cervantes, Miguel de	Exemplary Novels, Don Quixote
1548-1600	Bruno, Giordano	On Shadows of Ideas
c.1552-1599	Spenser, Edmund	The Faerie Queene, Prothalamion, Shephearde's Calender
1554-1600	Hooker, Richard	Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
1560-1609	Arminius, Jacobus	The Declaration of Sentiments
1561-1626	Bacon, Francis	The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis, Essays, The Great Instauration
1562-1635	Lope de Vega, Félix	The Beauty of Angelica, The Sheep Well, The Knight from Olmeda, Punishment without Revenge
1564-1642	Galileo Galilei	Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences, Dialogue
1564-1616	Shakespeare, William	Julius Caesar, King Richard II, King Henry IV: Pt. 1, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Tempest, Sonnets
1564-1593	Marlowe, Christopher	Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great
1571-1630	Kepler, Johannes	Harmonies of the World, New Astronomy, Dream
1572-1631	Donne, John	Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Poems
1575-1624	Böhme, Jakob	Aurora, The Way to Christ, The Supersensual Life
1578-1657	Harvey, William	On the Circulation of the Blood
1583-1645	Grotius, Hugo	Rights of War and Peace
1585-1638	Jansen, Cornelius	Augustinus
1588-1679	Hobbes, Thomas	Leviathan, Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, and Chance
1588-1649	Winthrop, John	A Modell of Christian Charity, The History of New England, Antinomians and Familists condemned
1592-1655	Gassendi, Pierre	Disquisito Metaphysica, De Vita at Moribus Epicuri
1593-1633	Herbert, George	A Priest to the Temple
1596-1650	Descartes, Renee	Meditations on First Philosophy, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method
1600-1681	Calderón de la Barca, Pedro	Life is a Dream, Six Plays
1601-1665	Fermat, Pierre de
1605-1682	Browne, Sir Thomas	Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia or Urne-Burial, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
1606-1684	Corneille, Pierre	El Cid
1608-1674	Milton, John	Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas
1611-1677	Harrington, James	The Commonwealth of Oceana
1613-1680	La Rochefoucauld, Duc de	The Maxims
1614-1687	More, Henry	An Antidote Against Atheism, Theological Works
1616-1658	Sexby, Edward	Killing Noe Murder, England's Miserie and Remedie
1617-1688	Cudworth, Ralph	The True Intellectual System of the Universe, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
1622-1695	Vaughan, Henry	Silex Scintillans
1622-1673	Molière	Le Misanthrope
1623-1662	Pascal, Blaise	Pensées, Provincial Letters
1623-1683	Sidney, Algernon	Discourses Concerning Government
1624-1691	Fox, George	The Journal of George Fox
1627-1691	Boyle, Robert
1627-1704	Bossuet, Jacques	Discourse on Universal History, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
1628-1688	Bunyan, John	Pilgrim's Progress
1629-1695	Huygens, Christiaan	Cosmotheoros, Treatise on Light
1631-1700	Dryden, John	The Hind and the Panther, MacFlecknoe
1632-1704	Locke, John	Two Treatises on Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, A Letter Concerning Toleration
1632-1677	Spinoza, Baruch	Theological-Political Treatise, Ethics
1632-1694	Pufendorf, Samuel von	Natural Law, Formation of Societies and Governments
1633-1703	Pepys, Samuel	Diaries
1635-1703	Hooke, Robert	Posthumous Works
1636-1680	Glanvill, Joseph	Plus Ultra, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, Scepsis scientifica
1638-1715	Malebranche, Nicholas	Search for Truth, Treatise on Nature and Grace
1639-1699	Racine, Jean	Tragedies, Phaedre
1642-1727	Newton, Isaac	Principia Mathematica, Optics
1646-1716	Leibniz, Gottfried von	Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
1647-1705	Bayle, Pierre	Historical and Critical Dictionary
1651-1715	Fénelon, François	Traité de l'existence et des attributs de Dieu, Dialogues des Morts, Examen de conscience sur les devoirs de la Royauté, Traité du ministère des pasteurs
1654-1705	Bernoulli, Jacques
1660-1731	Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
1663-1728	Mather, Cotton	What Must I Do To Be Saved?, The Duties of Children to Their Parents, The Education of Children, A Father's Resolutions
1667-1745	Swift, Jonathan	A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
1667-1735	Arbuthnot, John	John Bull pamphlets
1668-1744	Vico, Giambattista	New Science
1670-1729	Congreve, William	The Way of the World
1670-1733	Mandeville, Bernard	The Fable of the Bees
1671-1713	Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl	Inquiry concerning Virtue, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
1671-1729	Law, John	Essay on a Land Bank, Money and Trade
1672-1719	Addison, Joseph	The Spectator
1679-1754	Wolff, Christian	The German Metaphysics
1683-1765	Young, Edward	Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality
1685-1753	Berkeley, George	Principles of Human Knowledge, Treatise Concerning Human Understanding
1688-1744	Pope, Alexander	Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Duncinaid
1689-1755	Montesquieu, Baron de	Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline, The Spirit of the Laws, Persian Letters
1692-1752	Butler, Joseph	Human Life as in the Presence of God, This Life as a Prelude to a Future Life, The World as a Moral Order, Public Institutions as Moral Agents
1694-1778	Voltaire, François	Candide, Zadig, L'Ingenu, Treatise on Metaphysics, Letters
1694-1746	Hutcheson, Franics	Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations of the Moral Sense
1700-1782	Bernoulli, Daniel	Hydrodynamica
1702-1761	Bayes, Thomas	Divine Benevolence, Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
1703-1758	Edwards, Jonathan	Freedom of the Will, Original Sin, The End for Which God Created the World
1703-1791	Wesley, John	Notes on the Bible
1706-1790	Franklin, Benjamin	Poor Richard's Almanac
1707-1783	Euler, Leonhard	Mechanica
1707-1778	Linneaus, Carolus	Systema Naturae, Species Plantarum
1707-1754	Fielding, Henry	Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
1709-1784	Johnson, Samuel	The Rambler, The Idler, The Lives of the Poets, The Vanity of Human Wishes
1709-1751	La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de	Man a Machine
1710-1796	Reid, Thomas	Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essays on the Active Powers of Man
1711-1776	Hume, David	A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Essays Moral and Political
1712-1778	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	On the Origin of Inequality, On the Political Economy, Emile, The Social Contract, Confessions
1712-1786	Frederick the Great	Anti-Machiavel, An Essay on Forms of Government
1713-1784	Diderot, Denis	Rameau's Nephew, D'Alembert's Dream
1713-1768	Sterne, Laurence	Tristram Shandy
1715-1771	Helvétius, Claude	Essays on the Mind, A Treatise on Man
1714-1780	Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de	Traité des systemes, Cours d'études
1717-1783	Alembert, Jean d'	Traite de dynamique
1717-1797	Walpole, Horace	The Castle of Otranto
1717-1768	Winckelmann, Johann	Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks, History of Ancient Art
1723-1789	Holbach, Paul d'	The System of Nature
1723-1790	Smith, Adam	Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments
1723-1780	Blackstone, William	Commentaries on the Laws of England
1724-1804	Kant, Immanuel	Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, The Science of Right, Critique of Judgment, Perpetual Peace
1729-1797	Burke, Edmund	Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, A Vindication of Natural Society
1729-1781	Lessing, Gotthold	Laocoon, Hamburgische Dramaturgie, The Education of the Human Race

1731-1810	Cavendish, Henry
1731-1800	Cowper, William	The Task, Light Shining out of Darkness
1732-1799	Washington, George	Addresses, Morals
1732-1799	Beaumarchais, Pierre Caron de	Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro
1736-1813	Lagrange, Joseph de	Analytical Mechanics
1736-1799	Henry, Patrick	Speeches, Anti-Federalist
1736-1806	Coulomb, Charles de
1737-1794	Gibbon, Edward	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
1737-1798	Galvani, Luigi
1738-1822	Herschel, William
1740-1795	Boswell, James	Journal, Life of Samuel Johnson
1743-1819	Jacobi, Friedrich	Allwill, Woldemar
1743-1794	Condorcet, Marquis de	Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
1743-1826	Jefferson, Thomas	Declaration of Independence
1743-1794	Lavoisier, Antoine	Elements of Chemistry
1743-1805	Paley, William	The Moral and Political Philosophy, Horce Paulince, Natural History, Natural Theology, Sermons
1744-1803	Herder, Johann von	Philosophy of the History of Mankind
1744-1829	Lamarck, Jean	Zoological Philosophy
1745-1827	Volta, Alessandro	A Brief History of Elecricity
1748-1832	Bentham, Jeremy	An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
1749-1832	Goethe, Johann von	Faust, Sorrows of Young Werther, Poetry and Truth, Wilhelm Meister
1749-1827	Laplace, Pierre	Exposition of the System of the World, Treatise on Celestial Mechanics
1751-1836	Madison, James	Federalist
1753-1801	Rivarol, Antoine, comte de	Mémoires, Lettre à the Noblesse Française
1754-1840	Bonald, Louis, vicomte de	Pensées diverses, On Divorce, Démonstration philosophique du principe constitutif des sociétés, Théorie du pouvoir politique et religieux
c.1755-1804	Hamilton, Alexander	Federalist
1755-1835	Marshall, John	Marbury v. Madison, Darmouth College v. Woodward
1756-1836	Godwin, William	An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
1757-1827	Blake, William	Songs of Innocence, Prophetic Books, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1759-1805	Schiller, Johann von	William Tell, Ode to Joy, On Grace and Dignity, On the Aesthetic Education of Mankind, The Maiden of Orleans
1759-1797	Wollstonecraft, Mary	A Vindication on the Rights of Men & Women, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
1759-1796	Burns, Robert	Bonnie Jean, A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne, John Barleycorn
1760-1825	Saint-Simon, Comte de	Nouveau Christianisme, Mémoire sur la science de l'homme
1762-1814	Fichte, Johann	Essay towards a Critique of All Revelations, Addresses to the German Nation
1766-1834	Malthus, Thomas	An Essay on the Principle of Population
1766-1817	de Staël, Madame	Considerations on the principal events, Corinne, Correspondence
1767-1835	Humboldt, Wilhelm von	The Sphere and Duties of Government
1767-1830	Constant, Benjamin	On the Sovereignty of the People, De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation, Principes de politique
1768-1830	Fourier, Joseph	Theorie analytique de la Chaleur
1768-1834	Schleiermacher, Friedrich	On Religion, Speeches, The Christian Faith
1768-1848	Chateaubriand, François René	Atala, René, The Genius of Christianity
1769-1832	Cuvier, Baron Georg	Le regne animal, Histoire naturelle des poissons
1770-1831	Hegel, G. W. F.	Phenomenology, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Aesthetics, Philosophy of Right
1770-1850	Wordsworth, William	Lyrical Ballads, The Excursion, The Prelude, Resolution and Independence, Intimations of Immortality
1771-1832	Scott, Sir Walter	Ivanhoe, Talisman, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, St.Ronan's Well, Rob Roy, Bride of Lammermore
1772-1834	Coleridge, Samuel	Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria
1772-1823	Ricardo, David	Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
1772-1844	Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Étienne	Philosophie anatomique
1773-1842	Sismondi, Jean Simonde de	Examen de la Constitution françoise, Political Economy, Nouveaux principes d'economie politique, Histoire des français
1775-1854	Schelling, Friedrich von	System of Transcendental Idealism, Of Human Freedom, The Philosophy of Ar, The Ages of the World
1775-1836	Ampère, André Marie
1775-1817	Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice, Emma
1777-1855	Gauss, Carl Friedrich	Disquisitiones arithmeticae
1778-1830	Hazlitt, William	Round Table, Table Talk, Plain Speaker, Spirit of the Age, The Life of Napoleon
1780-1831	Clausewitz, Carl von	On War
1782-1850	Calhoun, John	The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, Speeches, A Disquisition on Government, A Discourse on the Constitution
1782-1852	Webster, Daniel