Books That Changed the World改變歷史的書

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Robert B. Downs - 2004 - Fiction - 352 頁
Examines the content and impact of works, including the Bible, the Iliad, Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, that have influenced the course of ...
這書是修正版
初版台灣翻譯成改變歷史的書 (據譯者彭歌先生在90年代的版本說，它在純文學出版社時代，再刷超過百次......。)
不過，有特多西方文化歷史待加注。

以下用達爾文一處
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Full text of "Fifty years of Darwinism;"
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John Wilkins

English mathematician and scientist (1614–1672)

Born at Fawsley in Northamptonshire, Wilkins was educated at Oxford University, graduating in 1631. He was a parliamentarian during the English Civil War and became warden of Wadham College, Oxford University. In 1659 he was appointed master of Trinity College, Cambridge University. After the Restoration he lost his post but regained favor to become bishop of Chester.

Wilkins's chief contribution to the development of science was his part in founding the Royal Society. His influence can be traced back to his student days at Oxford when he collected around him a lively group of philosophers and scientists who later became founder members of the society in 1662. His own writings covered a wide range of fields and although he had a certain amount of mathematical knowledge he was more a practical scientist. His Discovery of a World in the Moon (1638) is a fantasy in which he speculated about the structure of the Moon. A later semimathematical work, Mathematical Magick, deals with the principles of machine design and in it Wilkins argued that perpetual motion is a theoretical possibility. One nonscientific interest to which Wilkins devoted much time was his project of devising a universal language.

College history

The College was founded on September 7th 1994 and currently meets three times in each year on the 2nd Monday in May, 3rd Tuesday in September and 1st Wednesday in December.
It takes its name from John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester. Wilkins was educated at Magdalen, Oxford and in 1648 he became warden of Wadham College. In 1659 he was appointed as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge by Richard Cromwell. In 1668 he became Bishop of Chester.
A champion of science, he expounded the discoveries and theories of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. He was a founder and first Secretary of the Royal Society. Wilkins died in 1672 in London.
The College motto is "Venite Gradatim Repetamus Opera Dei" (Come, let us gradually seek the works of God).