Books That Changed History
From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary
Published on 7. September 2017
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-241-28933-4 (ISBN)
Description
Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata.
Books that Changed History features 75 of the world's most momentous titles - from The Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary - and reveals their far-ranging impact.
Books are the medium through which scientists, storytellers, and philosophers introduce their ideas. Discover seminal religious and political titles, cornerstones of science such as On the Origin of Species, and ancient texts such as the I Ching, which is still used today to answer fundamental questions about human existence.
Get up close to see fascinating details, such as Versalius' exquisite anatomical illustrations in Epitome, Leonardo da Vinci's annotated notebooks, or the hand-decorated pages in the Gutenberg Bible. Discover why Euclid's Elements of Geometry was the most influential maths title ever published, and marvel at rare treasures such as the Aubin Codex, which tells the history of the Aztecs and the early Spanaish colonial period in Mexico.
Books that Changed History gathers stories, diaries, scientific treatises, plays, dictionaries, and religious texts into a stunning celebration of the power of books.
Books that Changed History features 75 of the world's most momentous titles - from The Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary - and reveals their far-ranging impact.
Books are the medium through which scientists, storytellers, and philosophers introduce their ideas. Discover seminal religious and political titles, cornerstones of science such as On the Origin of Species, and ancient texts such as the I Ching, which is still used today to answer fundamental questions about human existence.
Get up close to see fascinating details, such as Versalius' exquisite anatomical illustrations in Epitome, Leonardo da Vinci's annotated notebooks, or the hand-decorated pages in the Gutenberg Bible. Discover why Euclid's Elements of Geometry was the most influential maths title ever published, and marvel at rare treasures such as the Aubin Codex, which tells the history of the Aztecs and the early Spanaish colonial period in Mexico.
Books that Changed History gathers stories, diaries, scientific treatises, plays, dictionaries, and religious texts into a stunning celebration of the power of books.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 306 mm
Width: 257 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-28933-4 (9780241289334)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1: Foreword
2: Introduction
3: 3000BCE - 999CE
1: Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead
2: I Ching
3: The Art of War
4: Mahabharata
5: Dead Sea Scroll
6: Vienna Dioscoride
7: Book of Kells
8: The Blue Qur'an
9: Diamond Sutra
10: The Exeter Book
11: Directory
4: 1000-1449
1: The Tale of Genji
2: The Canon of Medicine
3: The Domesday
4: The Gospels of Henry the Lion
5: Les Tres Riches
6: Heures du Duc de Berry
7: Directory
5: 1450 - 1649
1: Gutenberg Bible
2: Elementa Geometriae
3: Nuremberg Chronicle
4: Divine Comedy
5: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
6: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
7: The Codex Leicester
8: Vier Buecher vonmenschlicher Proportion
9: Il Principe
10: Epitome
11: Cosmographia
12: Les Propheties
13: Aubin Codex
14: The Discoverie of Witchcraft
15: Don Quixote
16: King James Bible
17: Hortus Eystettensis
18: Tutte l'opere d'architettura
19: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
20: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
21: Bay Psalm Book
22: Directory
6: 1650-1899
1: Micrographia
2: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
3: Systema Naturae
4: L'Encyclopedie... des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers
5: A Dictionary of the English Language
6: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis
7: Tristram Shandy
8: Fables in Verse
9: The Wealth of Nations
10: Rights of Man
11: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
12: Birds of America
13: Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots
14: Baedeker guidebooks
15: The Pickwick Papers
16: The Holy Land
17: Photographs of British Algae:
18: Cyanotype Impressions
19: Uncle Tom's Cabin
20: Leaves of Grass
21: On the Origin of Species
22: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
23: Das Kapital
24: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted
25: Un Coup de Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard
26: Directory
7: 1900 Onwards
1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
3: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
4: General Theory of Relativity
5: Pro Dva Kvadrata
6: Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books
7: The Diary of a Young Girl
8: Le Petit Prince
9: Le Deuxieme Sexe
10: The Feminine Mystique
11: Silent Spring
12: Quotations from Chairman
13: Mao Tse-tung
14: Directory
8: Index
9: Acknowledgements
2: Introduction
3: 3000BCE - 999CE
1: Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead
2: I Ching
3: The Art of War
4: Mahabharata
5: Dead Sea Scroll
6: Vienna Dioscoride
7: Book of Kells
8: The Blue Qur'an
9: Diamond Sutra
10: The Exeter Book
11: Directory
4: 1000-1449
1: The Tale of Genji
2: The Canon of Medicine
3: The Domesday
4: The Gospels of Henry the Lion
5: Les Tres Riches
6: Heures du Duc de Berry
7: Directory
5: 1450 - 1649
1: Gutenberg Bible
2: Elementa Geometriae
3: Nuremberg Chronicle
4: Divine Comedy
5: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
6: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
7: The Codex Leicester
8: Vier Buecher vonmenschlicher Proportion
9: Il Principe
10: Epitome
11: Cosmographia
12: Les Propheties
13: Aubin Codex
14: The Discoverie of Witchcraft
15: Don Quixote
16: King James Bible
17: Hortus Eystettensis
18: Tutte l'opere d'architettura
19: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
20: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
21: Bay Psalm Book
22: Directory
6: 1650-1899
1: Micrographia
2: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
3: Systema Naturae
4: L'Encyclopedie... des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers
5: A Dictionary of the English Language
6: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis
7: Tristram Shandy
8: Fables in Verse
9: The Wealth of Nations
10: Rights of Man
11: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
12: Birds of America
13: Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots
14: Baedeker guidebooks
15: The Pickwick Papers
16: The Holy Land
17: Photographs of British Algae:
18: Cyanotype Impressions
19: Uncle Tom's Cabin
20: Leaves of Grass
21: On the Origin of Species
22: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
23: Das Kapital
24: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted
25: Un Coup de Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard
26: Directory
7: 1900 Onwards
1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
3: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
4: General Theory of Relativity
5: Pro Dva Kvadrata
6: Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books
7: The Diary of a Young Girl
8: Le Petit Prince
9: Le Deuxieme Sexe
10: The Feminine Mystique
11: Silent Spring
12: Quotations from Chairman
13: Mao Tse-tung
14: Directory
8: Index
9: Acknowledgements