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Books That Changed the World: Part C

I feel I've saved the best for last: the source work is as much a fascinating study of social, scientific and technological change over the centuries as it is a list of great works of literature.
This is the 3rd and final instalment of the series. It is sourced from "100 Books That Changed the World" (Scott Christianson, 2018).
I'll let you decide whether you have studied the thesaurus, dictionary etc intensively enough to deserve a point. BTW, there are 101 books on my list because I subdivided the Kinsey reports.
Works common to all 3 challenges are:
The Iliad (Homer)
The Republic (Plato)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Newton's Principia Mathematica
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
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I Ching
I Ching
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Torah
Torah
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The Iliad and the Odyssey (Homer)
The Iliad and the Odyssey (Homer)
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Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
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The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
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The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects (Confucius)
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
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The Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Plato)
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Elements of Geometry (Euclid)
Elements of Geometry (Euclid)
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De Architectura (Vitruvius)
De Architectura (Vitruvius)
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Natural History by Pliny the Elder
Natural History by Pliny the Elder
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The Holy Qur'an
The Holy Qur'an
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Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (Anonymous)
Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (Anonymous)
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The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
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The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Gutenberg Bible (Various)
Gutenberg Bible (Various)
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The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Nicolaus Copernicus)
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Nicolaus Copernicus)
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The Lives of the Artists (Giorgio Vasari)
The Lives of the Artists (Giorgio Vasari)
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The Prophecies (Nostradamus)
The Prophecies (Nostradamus)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
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The Holy Bible (King James Version) (Various)
The Holy Bible (King James Version) (Various)
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The First Folio (William Shakespeare)
The First Folio (William Shakespeare)
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Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Mady By
Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Mady By
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
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The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys)
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys)
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Isaac Newton)
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Isaac Newton)
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Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
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Species Plantarum (Carl Linnaeus)
Species Plantarum (Carl Linnaeus)
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (Samuel Johnson)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (Samuel Johnson)
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The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole)
The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole)
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 Books) (Edward Gibbon)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 Books) (Edward Gibbon)
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The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
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Rights of Man (Thomas Paine)
Rights of Man (Thomas Paine)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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