The Library of Original Sources: Volume V: 9th to 16th Century

CONTENTS The Geographical Discoveries Columbus Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus Vasco da Gama Round Africa to India Magellan's Voyage Round the World Account by the Genoese Pilot Political Ideas of Machiavelli The Government of a Prince Copernicus The Copernican Theory The Reformation Erasmus Benefice Hunting The Penitent Virgin Martin Luther Ninety-five Theses Against Catholicism Justification by Faith The Peasant Revolt The Twelve Articles of the Peasants John Calvin Eternal Election The Augsburg Confession Confession of Faith - the Statement of Their Case and Ideas by the German Protestants Loyola The Jesuit Constitution The Dutch Declaration of Independence The Declaration Montaigne On the Education of Children Francis Bacon The Novum Organum Aphorisms on the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man Galileo Letters to Kepler on the Copernican System and the Telescope Dialogue on the Copernican System Condemnation Recantation Kepler Kepler and His Laws On the Principles of Astronomy The New Countries The Aztec Civilization Cortes's Account of the City of Mexico The First Settlenent in the United States Mendoza's Account of the Founding of St. Augustine The Founding of Quebec The First Written Constitution The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut The Customs of the Indians Account by Morton (about 1637) Hooker's Review of Church Questions The English Revolution The Petition of Right The First Writ of Ship-Money Pym's Speech Against Strafford The Grand Remonstrance