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Murray ranks the leading 4,000 innovators in several fields of human accomplishment from 800 BC to 1950. In each field Murray identifies a number of sources (leading encyclopedias, histories and surveys) providing information about the leading figures in the field.
- Charles A. Murray
- 2003
Nov 9, 2004 · Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.
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- 2003
- Charles A. Murray
- Charles Murray
Nov 9, 2004 · The purpose of Human Accomplishment is twofold: to establish that there are objective measures of accomplishment in the arts and sciences, and that there are objective disparities between each society's contributions which can be explained.
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reach of the human mind and spirit—heights that are most visibly attained in the arts and sciences. The first purpose of this book is to assemble and describe inventories of human accomplishment, a task that implies the book’s first thesis: the dimen-sions and content of human accomplishment can be apprehended as facts. It is more
Feb 20, 2022 · Human Accomplishment, CHARLES MURRAY. Collection. opensource. Murray finds that the european white people outshine all other areas in accomplishment. For example, he writes: "Whether measured in people or events, 97 percent of accomplishment in the scientific inventories occurred in Europe and North America" (p. 252).
Human Accomplishment. We center the most extraordinary and accomplished people throughout history. Featured Today. The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Nov 9, 2004 · Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the...
