Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950.Charles Murray Charles Murray is the name of several notable people:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : HarperCollins, 2003. Using a variety of statistical analyses, Charles Murray in Human Accomplishment has compiled inventories of people who have been essential to the fields of literature, art, philosophy, and the sciences--a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. their eminence eminence /em·i·nence/ (em´i-nens) a projection or boss. caudal eminence a taillike eminence in the early embryo, the remnant of the primitive node and the precursor of hindgut, adjacent . Here is a brief sampling, in rank order, of the top five individuals in some categories: Astronomy: Galileo, Kepler, W. Herschel, Laplace, Copernicus Biology: Darwin, Aristotle, Lamarck, Cuvier, Morgan Chemistry: Lavoisier, Berzelius, Scheele, Priestly, Davy Physics: Newton, Einstein, Rutherford, Faraday faraday /far·a·day/ (F ) (far´ah-da) the electric charge carried by one mole of electrons or one equivalent weight of ions, equal to 9.649 × 104coulombs. far·a·day n. , Galileo Mathematics: Euler, Newton, Euclid, Gauss, Fermat Medicine: Pasteur, Hippocrates, Koch, Galen, Paracelsus Technology: Watt, Edison, Leonardo, Huygens, Archimedes Western Philosophy: Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Descartes, Hegel Western Music: Beethoven, Mozart, J.S. Bach, Wagner, Haydn Western Art: Michelangelo, Picasso, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian Titian (tĭsh`ən), c.1490–1576, Venetian painter, whose name was Tiziano Vecellio, b. Pieve di Cadore in the Dolomites. Of the very first rank among the artists of the Renaissance, Titian had an immense influence on succeeding generations Western Literature: Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante, Virgil, Homer Murray also examines topics such as: the giants of the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; the differences between great achievements in the arts and sciences; the significance of "meta-inventions"; 14 crucial leaps in the human capacity to create great art and science; and the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. He also takes on some controversial questions: Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? And he provides evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century and asks what this means. Whether you agree or disagree with Verb 1. disagree with - not be very easily digestible; "Spicy food disagrees with some people" hurt - give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back" Murray's choices of achievers, Human Accomplishment is well worth reading for the interesting historical information it provides and for the opportunity to ponder over the highest in human achievement. |
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