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Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
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Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 3:28 am
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/no...les-darwin
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 4:13 am
I was going to say the bible, then I saw the word "academic". Sorry.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 11:53 am
Cue religitards shrieking about persecution in  5....4....3....2.....1....
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 11:57 am (This post was last modified: November 11, 2015 at 12:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
In terms of separating science from the yoke of Christian cosmological bullshit, James Hutton's Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe did just as much as Darwin's the origin of species, and hutton published it 50 years earlier.  Only the anthropocentric conception of laymen' world made them take more notice of the Origins, but not theory of the earth.

I would say Newton's Principia was more fundamentally influential than either, but more overlooked by the layman because it's contents don't make for bullet points, artful illustrations, or punchy sound bites, while vague concept of what it is about conjures up memories of AP classes which made many feel inadaquate out of high school.

Principia laid the foundation of the intellectual environment that allowed Darwin and Hutton to not be hanged or exiled.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Good point, but Origin is a page turner published in English and Principia a terrible Shlep in Latin Smile
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November 11, 2015 at 12:22 pm
Quote:After a list of the top 20 academic books was pulled together by expert academic booksellers, librarians and publishers to mark the inaugural Academic Book Week, the public was asked to vote on what they believed to be the most influential. With titles in the running including A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, Darwin’s explanation of his theory of evolution was the public’s overwhelming favourite, with 26% of the vote, said organisers.

How exactly was Nineteen Eighty-Four chosen as an influential academic book?
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 12:27 pm
Academics read it.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 12:52 pm
To who? I agree it is, but why are we still dealing with idiots who deny evolution, and even have those idiots in government and running for president?
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 1:06 pm
Because there are a lot of idiots voting.
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RE: Charles Darwin the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history
November 11, 2015 at 3:30 pm
(November 11, 2015 at 1:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Because there are a lot of idiots voting.


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