Thursday, November 4, 2010

Documentary Review:12 Books That Changed The World , Episode-3/4


Twelve Books That Changed the World is a book by Melvyn Bragg, published in 2006.

The twelve books listed were:

    * Principia Mathematica (1687) — Isaac Newton
    * Married Love (1918) — Marie Stopes
    * Magna Carta (1215)
    * Book of Rules of Association Football (1863)
    * On the Origin of Species (1859) — Charles Darwin
    * On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789) — William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
    * A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) — Mary Wollstonecraft
    * Experimental Researches in Electricity (three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855) by Michael Faraday
    * Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine (1769) — Richard Arkwright
    * The King James Bible (1611) — William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king
    * An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) — Adam Smith
    * The First Folio (1623) — William Shakespeare

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