Editing Human Accomplishment (section)

{{short description|2003 book by Charles Murray}}
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| name             = Human Accomplishment : The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
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| author           = [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]]
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| cover_artist     = Robert Bull Design
| country          = United States
| language         = English
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| subjects         = Art, science
| publisher        = [[HarperCollins]]
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| pub_date         = {{Start date|2003|10|09|df=y}}
| media_type       = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages            = 668
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| isbn             = 978-0060192471
| oclc             = 52047270
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'''''Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950''''' is a 2003 book by the political scientist [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Derbyshire |first=John |date=2018 |title=The De-rehabilitation of Charles Murray |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=133311158&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |journal=Academic Questions |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=401–410 |doi=10.1007/s12129-018-9737-x |doi-broken-date=30 May 2025 |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref> Surveying outstanding contributions to the Arts and Sciences from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century. Murray attempts to quantify and explain human accomplishment worldwide in the fields of Arts and Sciences by calculating the amount of space allocated to them in reference works, an area of research sometimes referred to as [[Historiometry]].