Melvyn Bragg
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Twelve Books That Changed the World is a book by Melvyn Bragg, published in 2006.
The twelve books listed were:
- Principia Mathematica (1687) — Isaac Newton
- Married Love (1918) — Marie Stopes
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Book of Rules of Association Football (1863)
- On the Origin of Species (1859) — Charles Darwin
- On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789) — William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) — Mary Wollstonecraft
- Experimental Researches in Electricity (three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855) by Michael Faraday
- Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine (1769) — Richard Arkwright
- The King James Bible (1611) — William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) — Adam Smith
- The First Folio (1623) — William Shakespeare
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