Harrison Horblit, 100 Books Famous in Science, 1964 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Harrison Horblit, 100 Books Famous in Science, 1964, PART THREE (III).
INTRODUCTION.
BELOW are two (2) famous books from each of the last ten (10) centuries. There is one exception to the two (2) books per century rule: the 1600’s is the century of the MICROSCOPE (shown ABOVE).
William of Saliceto, “Anatomia (Chirurgia)”, 1275 was an early Italian anatomist. Andreas Vesalius, “On the Fabric of the Human Body”, 1543 was also an anatomist of note before the MICROSCOPE.
However, Robert Hooke, “Micrographia”, 1665; and, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, “Microscopic Observations”, 1682 are microscopists. Science is method only; and methodical observations with the MICROSCOPE means Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke causes me to include them in the 1600’s of famous in Science.
SCIENCE BOOKS TIMELINE.
ELEVENTH CENTURY.
Alhazen, “Optics”, 1021.
Avicenna, “Canon of Medicine”, 1025.
TWELFTH CENTURY.
Avenzoar, “Book of Simplification Concerning Therapeutics and Diet’, 1162.
Averroes, “General Principles of Medicine”, 1162.
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.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, “Microscopic Observations”, 1682.
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.
