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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 12, 2015 at 4:56 am
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You have to remember that this isn't from the perspective of people educated in the individual disciplines to which the books apply but to a mass/general audience.
A lot of people became interested in physics way before people like Brian Cox came around because of ABHOT. I agree it didn't change the world like OOS, but it introduced complex stuff to people who would otherwise never have engaged with it.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 12, 2015 at 6:11 am
(November 11, 2015 at 9:39 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Alex, brief history is good for cafe physicists.
IE, those who voted.
Can *you* make the perfect toasted teacake while calculating the circumference of the sun?
Cafe physicists are awesome.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 12, 2015 at 6:32 am
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(November 12, 2015 at 6:11 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Cafe physicists are awesome.
Used to love this guy...Who remembers him?
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 12, 2015 at 6:36 am
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(November 12, 2015 at 6:32 am)ignoramus Wrote: (November 12, 2015 at 6:11 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Cafe physicists are awesome.
Used to love this guy...Who remembers him?
Not me. His teacakes must of sucked donkey balls.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 12, 2015 at 6:54 am
Why is this so?
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 12, 2015 at 7:40 am
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Yabut, look at this quote (I have missed out a few irrelevant intervening words):
"I am ... Christian ... and ... I ... can't ... believe ... in ... natural processes."
Charles Darwin; various.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 13, 2015 at 12:56 am
(November 12, 2015 at 3:51 am)Quantum Wrote: (November 11, 2015 at 9:39 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Alex, brief history is good for cafe physicists.
IE, those who voted.
I'm not disputing that it is good, just that it belongs on this list. Was it really that influential on say 20th century thought? We're comparing it with world changing stuff here...
I'm just spitballing here, but perhaps it has something to do with bringing a very complex and important subject and making it approachable to non-physicists.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 16, 2015 at 1:55 am
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It's worth pointing out what seems people are missing.
This is a list of the most impactful academic book. #1 could've been written with the vocabulary of a 1st grader, it's about what was the most influential over a long time period.
The origin of species influenced people's thoughts, and led to numerous discoveries, and the dismissal of previous assumptions. Even if the idea was proposed earlier, the book had a large impact, and regardless of the subject, I think the list was about what had the most impact down the road as opposed to shortly after being written. This is why I believe Newton wasn't first either.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 16, 2015 at 3:25 am
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(November 13, 2015 at 12:56 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (November 12, 2015 at 3:51 am)Quantum Wrote: I'm not disputing that it is good, just that it belongs on this list. Was it really that influential on say 20th century thought? We're comparing it with world changing stuff here...
I'm just spitballing here, but perhaps it has something to do with bringing a very complex and important subject and making it approachable to non-physicists.
Do I sense snarkasm? 
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