Editing List of books Temeraire read

* A book on mineralogy, which speaks about gemstones and their mining (Book 1 Chapter 3).
* The Naval Trident by Duncan (Book 1 Chapter 4) - Possibly <i>The British Trident, or, Register of Naval Actions</i> by Archibald Duncan, first published in 1804?
* An English translation of the <i>Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica</i> by Isaac Newton, 1687.  The translation may have been the one done by Andrew Motte in 1729.  [[Laurence]] was prepared to bring his Latin up to snuff to read the book to [[Temeraire]] in the original, but he was probably just as happy to find a translation.  This becomes Temeraire's favourite book, almost sort of a bedtime story for him.
* A book by (Pierre-Simon) Laplace, possibly one of the first four volumes of the <i>Mécanique céleste</i> published 1799-1805.  Laurence finds this book to be somewhat heavy going.
* A book of Oriental tales about dragons, translated and annotated by Sir [[Edward Howe]].   
* A book by Gibbon, the second volume (Book 2 Chapter 3) - Probably <i>The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</i>, Edward Gibbon's best known work.  It was published in six volumes 1776-1789. 
* A French translation of the Arabian Nights (Book 2 Chapter 10) - Possibly the translation by Antoine Galland published in 1704, which was the first European version of the tales.  Temeraire's reference to Ali Baba's cave (in a discussion of [[Requiescat]]'s attempt to take over Temeraire's own cave) comes from the Arabian Nights.
* Classical Chinese works, including the <i>Analects</i> of Confucius, which Temeraire refers to in a discussion with [[Majestatis]].
* <i>Die Leiden des jungen Werther</i> (Book 3 Chapter 11) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774 and published in a revised edition in 1787.

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