Books That Changed History - From the art of war to Anne Frank's diary

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

1: Foreword2: Introduction3: 3000BCE - 999CE1: Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead2: I Ching3: The Art of War4: Mahabharata5: Dead Sea Scroll6: Vienna Dioscoride7: Book of Kells8: The Blue Qur'an9: Diamond Sutra10: The Exeter Book11: Directory4: 1000-14491: The Tale of Genji2: The Canon of Medicine3: The Domesday4: The Gospels of Henry the Lion5: Les Très Riches6: Heures du Duc de Berry7: Directory5: 1450 - 16491: Gutenberg Bible2: Elementa Geometriae3: Nuremberg Chronicle4: Divine Comedy5: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili6: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton7: The Codex Leicester8: Vier Bücher vonmenschlicher Proportion9: Il Principe10: Epitome11: Cosmographia12: Les Prophéties13: Aubin Codex14: The Discoverie of Witchcraft15: Don Quixote16: King James Bible17: Hortus Eystettensis18: Tutte l'opere d'architettura19: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies20: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo21: Bay Psalm Book22: Directory6: 1650-18991: Micrographia2: Philosophiæ Nat uralis Principia Mathematica3: Systema Naturae4: L'Encyclopédie... des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers5: A Dictionary of the English Language6: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis7: Tristram Shandy8: Fables in Verse9: The Wealth of Nations10: Rights of Man11: Songs of Innocence and of Experience12: Birds of America13: Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots14: Baedeker guidebooks15: The Pickwick Papers16: The Holy Land17: Photographs of British Algae:18: Cyanotype Impressions19: Uncle Tom's Cabin20: Leaves of Grass21: On the Origin of Species22: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland23: Das Kapital24: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted25: Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard26: Directory7: 1900 Onwards1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz2: The Tale of Peter Rabbit3: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm4: General Theory of Relativity5: Pro Dva Kvadrata6: Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books7: The Diary of a Young Girl8: Le Petit Prince9: Le Deuxième Sexe10: The Feminine Mystique11: Silent Spring12: Quotations from Chairman13: Mao Tse-tung14: Directory8: Index9: Acknowledgements