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guybrush · 3326 days ago · link · · parent · post: On the Origin of Species voted most influential academic book in history.
Matter or mattered? We're talking about a book that was written 150 years ago. I can't think of a time when I thought, 'oh I'm going to read an entire book on astrophysics'. Like most of the population I don't have the patience or basic understanding to digest that much technical content. While I'm clearly not the target audience for such books, in today's age are academic books still just as important?the supreme demonstration of why academic books matter