Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998, PART TWO (II) was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Harrison Horblit, “100 Books Famous in Science”, 1964, PART TWO (II) was also the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998, PART THREE (III).
INTRODUCTION.
Jean-Francois Champollion famous writing is shown ABOVE. My personal list of scientist in the last 1000 years is shown BELOW.
SCIENTIST / DISCOVERER.
0. Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543.
1. Vesalius, Andreas 1514-1564.
2. Hooke, Robert 1635-1703.
3. Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van 1632-1723.
4. Newton, Isaac 1642-1727.
5. Linnaeus, Carl 1707-1778.
6. Lavoisier, Antoine 1743-1794.
7. Jones, William Sir 1746-1794.
8. Champollion, Jean-Francois 1790-1832.
9. Darwin, Charles 1809-1892.
10. Mendeleev, Dmitri 1834-1907.
11. Einstein, Albert 1879-1955.
12. McKusick, Victor 1921-2008.
Here I presented: Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998, PART THREE (III).
COMMENTS.
My list of books written by the ABOVE scientist/discoverer is BELOW. The list includes two linguistic discoverers: Sir William Jones & Jean-Francois Champollion. “Fertile Crescent” languages of Egypt and Mesopotamia’ decipherment is the Champollion 1822 contribution. Indo-European language phylum (Latin, Greek & Sanskrit) is the Sir William Jones 1824 contribution.
The “evolution of language” followed from these two linguistic discoverers: Charles Darwin, “The Origin of Species”, 1859 was the third discovery to influence linguistics. The lexical concept of “genus-species”, or generic-specific of Linnaeus is redefined by Darwin. Genus-species-variety as biology nomenclature equates to language-dialect-speech.
FAMOUS SCIENCE BOOKS.
Nicolaus Copernicus, “On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres”, 1543.
Andreas Vesalius, “On the Fabric of the Human Body”, 1543.
Robert Hooke, “Micrographia”, 1665.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, “Microscopic Observations”, 1682.
Isaac Newton, “Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, 1687.
Carl Linnaeus, System of Nature’, 1735.
Antoine Lavoisier, Elements’ of Chemistry, 1789.
Champollion, Jean-Francois, “Letter to Mister Bon-Joseph Dacier”, 1822.
William Jones, “Discourses Delivered Before the Asiatic Society”,1824.
Charles Darwin, “Origin of the Species”, 1859.
Dmitri Mendeleev, “Principles of Chemistry”, 1869.
Albert Einstein, “Special Relativity”, 1905.
Victor McKusick, Mendelian Inheritance in Man’, 1966.
