Harrison Horblit, “100 Books Famous in Science”, 1964 the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Harrison Horblit, “100 Books Famous in Science”, 1964, PART TWO (II).
INTRODUCTION.
A count to one hundred (100) presents you with two (2) number sets: “whole & natural”. Natural (1, 2, 3, … 100) numbers; versus, Whole (0, 1, 2, … 100). I start with Harrison Horblit’s listed items and must update the 1964 list of books for “whole numbers”.
My number zero (#0) book is: Victor McKusick, Mendelian Inheritance in Man’ , 1966. BELOW are some famous books from each of the last eight (8) centuries.
THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
Johannes Sacrobosco, “On the Sphere of the World”, 1230.
William of Saliceto, “Anatomia (Chirurgia)”, 1275.
FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
Guido de Vigevano, “Anothomia Philippi Septimi”, 1345.
Nicole Oresme, “Livre du ciel et du monde”, 1377.
FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
Claudius Ptolemy, “Cosmographia”, 1477.
Johannes Regiomontanus, “Theoricae Novae Planetarum”, 1496.
SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Nicolaus Copernicus, “On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres”, 1543.
Andreas Vesalius, “On the Fabric of the Human Body”, 1543.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
Galileo Galilei, “Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems”, 1632.
Robert Hooke, “Micrographia”, 1665.
Isaac Newton, “Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, 1687.
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Carl Linnaeus, System of Nature’, 1735.
Antoine Lavoisier, Elements’ of Chemistry’, 1789.
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Charles Darwin, “Origin of the Species”, 1859.
Dmitri Mendeleev, “Principles of Chemistry”, 1869.
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Albert Einstein, “Special Relativity”, 1905.
Victor McKusick, Mendelian Inheritance in Man’, 1966.
Here I presented: Harrison Horblit, “100 Books Famous in Science”, 1964, PART TWO (II).
COMMENTS.
BENEATH is a timeline of the scientists who wrote the books in Harrison Horblit’s 1964 collection. Today, in the digital age Victor McKucisk, Mendelian Inheritance in Man’, 1966 is available online as Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man’ (OMIM) and is updated daily. This is the only change I have to Harrison Horblit’s list. Digital books did not exist in 1964.
SCIENTIST TIMELINE.
0. Claudius Ptolemy 100-170.
1. Johannes Regiomontanus 1436-1476.
2. Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543.
3. Vesalius, Andreas 1514-1564.
4. Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642.
5. Hooke, Robert 1635-1703.
6. Newton, Isaac 1642-1727.
7. Linnaeus, Carl 1707-1778.
8. Lavoisier, Antoine 1743-1794.
9. Darwin, Charles 1809-1892.
10. Mendeleev, Dmitri 1834-1907.
11. Einstein, Albert 1879-1955.
12. McKusick, Victor 1921-2008.
