Twelve Books That Changed the World

by Melvyn Bragg

Blurb

Twelve Books That Changed the World is a book by Melvyn Bragg, published in 2006.
The twelve books listed were:
Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton
Married Love — Marie Stopes
Magna Carta
Book of Rules of Association Football
On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade — William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine — Richard Arkwright
The King James Bible — William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
The First Folio — William Shakespeare

First Published

2006

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