Picture a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata. Books that Changed History brings together 75 of the world’s most momentous titles – from The Art of War to Anne Frank’s Diary – and reveals the far-reaching impact each one has had. Books remain the medium through which scientists, storytellers, and philosophers introduce their ideas to the world, and this collection explores seminal religious and political titles, cornerstones of science such as On the Origin of Species, and ancient texts like the I Ching, still consulted today to answer fundamental questions about human existence. Readers get up close to fascinating details, from Versalius’ exquisite anatomical illustrations in Epitome and Leonardo da Vinci’s annotated notebooks to the hand-decorated pages of the Gutenberg Bible. Discover why Euclid’s Elements of Geometry became 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 Spanish 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.
ISBN 13: 9780241289334
Author: DK
