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Part I: From Earliest Times to Galileo

Oral Records: Accounts that give insights into early aspects of humanism

 San and !Kun, Maori, Eskimo, Bantu,  Ifaluk, North American Indian, Bedouin, Yukaghir, Dekanawidah 

Written Records: by author in order of date of birth:

Before 1000 BCE:   Sumer,  Ptahhotep, Hammurabi, Sin-leqe-unnini, Egyptian Love Poems, Amenemope, 

1000-500 BCE:  Chinese Odes, Homer, Carvaka, Vardhamana  Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Aeschylus

500- 400 BCE:  Greek Analects , Euripedes, Gorgias, Mo Tzu, Socrates, Democritus, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Tamil Love Poems, 

400- 200 BCE:  Chuang Tzu, Mencius, Bhagavad Gita, Epicurus, Asoka,  Xunzi, Hebrew Songs, Han Fei Tzu, Koheleth, Polybius

200 BCE - 200 CE:   Jesus Ben Sirach, Sima Qian, Tiruvalluvar, Lucretius, Vitruvius, Jesus of Nazareth, Wang Ch'ung, Epictetus

200 - 800 CE:  Lu Chi, Augustine, Justinian, Hitomaro, Li Po, Du Fu, Po Chu i 

800 -1100 CE:  Tsurayuki, Albiruni, Al Maarri, Samuel ha-Nagid, Bilhana, Omar Khayyam

1100 - 1300 CE: Chu Hsi, Kamo no Chomei, Sa'di, Ibn Khallikan, Kenko

1300 - 1450 CE:   Petrarch, Boccaccio, Hafiz, Ibn Khaldun, Bruni, Manetti, Valla

1450 -1500 CE:  Erasmus, Machiavelli, Wang Yang-ming,  Copernicus, Vives, Rabelais

1500 - 1550 CE:   Elizabethan Poets, Montaigne, Chong Ch'ol, Cervantes

1550 - 1600 CE:   Shakespeare, Bacon, Harvey, Galileo