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-'''''Twelve Books That Changed the World''''' is a book by [[Melvyn Bragg]], published in 2006. 
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-The twelve books listed were: 
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-* ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia Mathematica]]'' (1687) — [[Isaac Newton]] 
-* ''[[Married Love]]'' (1918) — [[Marie Stopes]] 
-* [[Magna Carta]] (1215) 
-* ''[[Laws of the Game (association football)#History and development#1863 rules|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]] 
-* [[King James Version of the Bible|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]] 
 +'''Michael Faraday''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an [[English people|English]] [[chemist]] and [[physicist]] (or ''[[natural philosopher]]'', in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of [[electromagnetism]] and [[electrochemistry]].
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Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.



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