Traceable Library

Explore the corpus of thinkers on prokopton42.com

We do not always look for a work, a text, or a passage in the same way. Browse by work as you would in a traditional library, travel through time, follow a semantic concept, or go straight to a precise excerpt. This Library exists to support practice and deeper study by bringing old texts into contact with daily experience and present questions.

Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

See more statistics

Corpus works: 259
Private works: 46
Private records: 56
Private excerpts: 20,006
Text representations: 223,819
Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
Tracked concepts: 9
Estimated sentences: 1,456,557
Words: 27,541,029

A representation is one language version of a canonical passage. Private excerpts come from source files. Sentence count is estimated from punctuation.

Refine

Free-text search Intellectual tradition Thinker or author Period Text language Concept Collection

Result orderSort byDirection

49 works match

Works

Books, collections and works from the Private collection share this shelf. Each card keeps its editions and sources.

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents in the Prokopton42.com Library

Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

Work

Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents

Incoming letters, petitions, and administrative records preserve the voices of people who petitioned, informed, or challenged Lincoln. The archive reveals the pressures of a wartime presidency without attributing his correspondents’ words to the president.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1916
Editions / translations: 2026
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19,210 passages · 7,989,852 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents in the Prokopton42.com Library

Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln

Work

Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents

Letters, speeches, proclamations, and notes follow Lincoln from Illinois politics through the Civil War. They show his language of Union, slavery, emancipation, executive power, and reconciliation taking shape under pressure.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1865
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 982 passages · 326,103 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Academica in the Prokopton42.com Library

AcademicaCicero

Work

Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 215,055 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth Carter in the Prokopton42.com Library

Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth CarterFrancesco Algarotti

Edition or translation awaiting alignment

Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth Carter

Francesco Algarotti casts Newtonian physics as polite dialogues concerned especially with light, colour, and attraction. Elizabeth Carter supplies the English translation; the work remains Algarotti’s, including the strategies and assumptions of its gendered popularization.

What you will learn

Composition: 1738-1739
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 627 passages · 80,518 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Ancient testimonia on Carneades in the Prokopton42.com Library

Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades

Fragments or testimony

Ancient testimonia on Carneades

One hundred carrier passages follow Carneades from criticism of certain apprehension to probable judgment without inventing a book for him.

What you will learn

Composition: carriers from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE; testimonia on Carneades
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · Latin · French · English
Extent: 100 passages · 35,730 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the Prokopton42.com Library

An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

Work

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The Essay examines the origin and composition of ideas, personal identity, and the limits of knowledge.

What you will learn

Composition: 1689-1700; revised lifetime editions
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 1,114 passages · 257,071 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses in the Prokopton42.com Library

Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

Work

Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses

The Aṅguttara Nikāya arranges teachings attributed to the Buddha in ascending numbered sets, from one item to eleven. Its mnemonic structure brings together conduct, mental training, communal life, and stages of awakening.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French · Pali
Extent: 1,408 passages · 443,916 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Brutus, or On Eminent Orators in the Prokopton42.com Library

Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero

Work

Brutus, or On Eminent Orators

Cicero traces the history of Roman eloquence through the speakers who shaped it. The dialogue combines criticism, portraiture, and an anxious reflection on public speech at a moment when the Republic is losing its freedom.

What you will learn

Composition: 46 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 334 passages · 79,995 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Catilinarian Orations in the Prokopton42.com Library

Catilinarian OrationsCicero

Work

Catilinarian Orations

Delivered during Catiline’s conspiracy, these four speeches accuse, mobilize, and justify the actions of the consul Cicero. They show eloquence turning a political threat into a public narrative of the Republic’s rescue.

What you will learn

Composition: 63 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 115 passages · 22,400 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology in the Prokopton42.com Library

Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

Work

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

What you will learn

Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Consolation to Marcia in the Prokopton42.com Library

Consolation to MarciaSeneca

Work

Consolation to Marcia

Seneca addresses Marcia, long overwhelmed by the death of her son. He contrasts models of mourning, recalls the vulnerability of every life, and seeks a memory that honours the dead without indefinitely sustaining the wound.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 39-40 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 14,991 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Consolation to Polybius in the Prokopton42.com Library

Consolation to PolybiusSeneca

Work

Consolation to Polybius

Seneca consoles Polybius after his brother’s death while indirectly seeking Emperor Claudius’ clemency. Reflection on grief and courtly praise mingle in a text where the exile also seeks conditions for his return.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 43-44 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 18 passages · 9,564 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Deuteronomy in the Prokopton42.com Library

DeuteronomyMoses

Work

Deuteronomy

Speeches of memory and law on the plains of Moab before entry into the promised land.

What you will learn

Composition: traditional Mosaic attribution; received composition and redaction across several centuries
Editions / translations: 2020 · 2022 · 2025
Languages: Hebrew · French · English
Extent: 34 passages · 28,325 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Existentialism Is a Humanism in the Prokopton42.com Library

Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre

Work

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Sartre defends existentialism against quietism and despair: a person defines themselves through acts, within a situation they did not wholly choose.

What you will learn

Composition: October 1945 lecture; 1966 Nagel manifestation
Editions / translations: 1966
Languages: French · English
Extent: 20 passages · 11,542 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Exodus in the Prokopton42.com Library

ExodusMoses

Work

Exodus

Departure from Egypt, wilderness journey, Sinai covenant, and the ordering of a liberated people.

What you will learn

Composition: traditional Mosaic attribution; received composition and redaction across several centuries
Editions / translations: 2020 · 2022 · 2025
Languages: Hebrew · French · English
Extent: 40 passages · 32,134 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Genesis in the Prokopton42.com Library

GenesisMoses

Work

Genesis

Narratives of beginnings, ancestral families, and covenant, from creation to Joseph in Egypt.

What you will learn

Composition: traditional Mosaic attribution; received composition and redaction across several centuries
Editions / translations: 2020 · 2022 · 2025
Languages: Hebrew · French · English
Extent: 50 passages · 37,339 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu in the Prokopton42.com Library

Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter

Fragments or testimony

Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu

In letters to Elizabeth Montagu, Carter combines friendship, social observation, and literary life. Publications, travel, bereavement, and networks of sociability show two women negotiating intellectual authority, reputation, and mutual support.

What you will learn

Composition: correspondence, 1758-1805
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 232 passages · 227,104 words

Photorealistic editorial illustration of Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey in the Prokopton42.com Library

Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter

Fragments or testimony

Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey

Carter writes to Elizabeth Vesey about health, travel, mutual friends, and literary sociability. The letters give intimate form to Bluestocking networks without reducing the relationship to salon activity alone.

What you will learn

Composition: correspondence, 1763-1787
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 130 passages · 106,586 words