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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: From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary

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 Bucher 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