Sun 19 Mar 2006
A man recently set out to list “12 Books that Changed the World.” Here is his list:
Principia Mathematica (1687) by Isaac Newton
Married Love (1918) by Marie Stopes
Magna Carta (1215) by members of the English ruling classes
Book of Rules of Association Football (1863) by a group of former English public-school men
On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789) by William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft
Experimental Researches in Electricity (three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855) by Michael Faraday
Patent Specification for Arkwright?s Spinning Machine (1769) by Richard Arkwright
The King James Bible (1611) by William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
The First Folio (1623) by William Shakespeare
I’d love to know what you think is missing.
March 19th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Torah - Jewish Holy text
Qur’an - Muslim Holy text
Baghivad Gita - Hindu Holy Text
Tipitaka - Buddhist holy text
March 20th, 2006 at 8:46 am
The Bible (?) Mathew, Mark, Luke, John
The Koran (?) Mohammed
The Prince (Renaissance) Machiavelli
The American Constitution (1789) Jefferson
Alice in Wonderland (186?) Lewis Carroll
On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions (196?) Kuhn
On the Dynamics of Moving Bodies (The Special Theory of Relativity E=MC(Square)) (1905) Einstein
The General Theory of Relativity (1915) Einstein
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:57 am
KARMA SUTRA- RECORDED BY VATSYAYANA
March 30th, 2006 at 7:42 am
Mein Kampf/My Struggle - Hitler
Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Stowe
On the Equality of the Sexes - Murray
The Feminine Mystique - Friedan
April 5th, 2006 at 6:15 am
ooh!
The Dramatic Imagination - Robert Edmund Jones
The Empty Space - Peter Brook
and of course…
A Method of Lighting the Stage - Stanley McCandless
(at least they changed MY world)