12 books that changed the world / Melvyn Bragg.
- Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-
- Date:
- 2006
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Twelve books that changed the world
Description
Throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare plus Marie Stopes, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the rules to an obscure ball game...
Publication/Creation
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2006.
Physical description
372 pages, 12 leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Contributors
Notes
TV tie-in.
Includes index.
Contents
Principia mathematica / Isacc Newton -- Married love / Marie Stopes -- Magna Carta -- The rule book of Association Football -- On the origin of species / Chales Darwin -- On the aboliton of the slave trade / William Wilberforce -- A vindication of the rights of women / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday -- Patent specification for Arkwright's spinning machine / Richard Arkwright -- The King James bible / William Tyndale -- An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- The first folio / William Shakespeare.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineYH /BRAOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 0340839805
- 9780340839805
- 0340839813
- 9780340839812