After more than 5,000 years of development, books have changed from the original scrolls and manuscripts to very rare and precious items; With the popularization of printing in the15th century, the number of books increased, which began to influence more people and promote ideological enlightenment and language development. Until now, books have entered thousands of households and become an indispensable part of our lives.
When we learn knowledge from books and improve ourselves, we often only pay attention to the contents of books, but ignore the development history of books themselves and what influence books have on our history.
In this regard, let's pay attention to the book itself and find the answer from this great book: 72 books that changed the course of history (hereinafter referred to as the Great Book)!
As a heavy guide to explore the history of human books, the masterpiece combs the development history of books for readers for more than 5,000 years in chronological order, explains how books evolved into today's appearance in an illustrated way, carefully selects 72 books with different meanings to human history, and explores how they reverse human destiny and rewrite human history.
The Book of the Dead in ancient Egypt in BC 1550 is a eulogy for the dead, which helps the souls of the dead to survive the danger smoothly and reach the afterlife.
Canon of Medicine from 1025 investigated the known fields of medical knowledge at that time. It was the first book to explain the principles of experiment and evidence-based medicine. Until18th century, it was still the standard reference material for medical workers in Islamic world and European universities.
1605, Don Quixote, regarded as the first modern novel in the history of western literature, was published. Because of its novel artistic form, it influenced the creative mode of many famous writers later, such as Dickens, Hemingway and Flaubert.
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, by Isaac? Newton put forward the three laws of motion and the theory of universal gravitation in his book, which provided indisputable support for Copernicus' controversial world system and became a pillar of physics.
In addition, you can also learn from the book:
The world's first book on microscopes-Macro Microscope,
Analyzing and Understanding the Works of Human Society —— The Wealth of Nations and Capital
The famous fairy tale-The Wizard of Oz and Peter Rabbit.
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The scope covers a variety of genres, including eulogy, novels, comedies, poetry collections, fables and fairy tales; It also includes various fields, including mathematical principles, economic discourse, natural science, medicine,
Show the development of economy, culture and science and technology in different times through books.
One of the reasons why Big Book is worth starting with is that there are thousands of precious illustrations in ancient books.
There are privately acquired Leicester manuscripts; The Book of kells, the most exquisite and complicated painted manuscript in the Middle Ages; 5 12, the only medical work "Vienna codex";
Pictures occupy the main position of the page, and the proportion is close to 1: 1. The specific details in the book can be clearly seen, and readers can get the same wonderful visual enjoyment as visiting a museum.
At the same time, the book is equipped with interesting, practical, clear and complete knowledge points, easy to read pictures and systematic learning, which is very suitable for parents, teenagers and lovers of historical civilization.
Books have changed our lives, reminded us who we are and shaped the world. This is also a beautiful work of art. ..
Great books not only pay attention to the content and influence of books, but also pay attention to the artistry of books, the way of making books, the beauty of calligraphy and illustrations.
In the era when books were still scarce and precious, craftsmen would draw beautiful illustrations next to words, add beautiful initials, decorate borders, or use expensive pigments and gold foil.
Nowadays, with the continuous development of the publishing industry, books are cheap and good, and we pay more attention to the content of books. The design of books is concise, elegant, clear and modern, and even a new reading form-e-book has appeared.
But paying attention to the aesthetic power of a book is still out of date in this era.
So is the creator of this book. This great book has a great binding design, which is simply "pleasing to the eye" to read!
The book adopts hard-shell hardcover edition, which is easy to read. The cover adopts three printing processes: bronzing, embossing and UV. Comfortable typesetting, illustrated. It is really a book suitable for leisure reading and essential for home!