_Microcosmographia Academica_ is considered F. W. Cornford's classic, though Cornford wrote much more, of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._M._Cornford W.K.C. Guthrie, who follows in Cornford's tradition, wrote the Foreword. As a philosopher Guthrie followed in the tradition of Cornford in believing that ancient philosophers should be read and interpreted against their own historical background, rather than engaged with, as has been the practice of later generations of classical philosophers, in the context of the whole canon of philosophy both ancient and modern. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._K._C._Guthrie ( )

Peter Keller, president of polling company YouGov, has chosen to discuss F M Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica, on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - British Democracy, saying that:

"This wonderfully elegant Edwardian satire is really a passionate demand for honest politics. Cornford was a Cambridge academic and he wrote this very short book, not much more than a pamphlet, on university politics. In fact it is a wonderful satire on all politics."

The full interview is available here: http://five-books.com/interviews/Peter-Kellner ( )