Here I present: Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998, PART FOUR (IV).
INTRODUCTION.
Johannes Gutenberg printer ranked number one (#1) as the most influential of the millennium in the book Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998. I am going to present in this blog post some of the reasons that resulted in Johannes Gutenberg being considered the most influential person of the millennium.
Gutenberg-press Type-font is not cursive! Let us consider the Arabic script which is “connected-cursive”. In contrast, the Latin script is both: “connected-cursive”,and “free-noncursive” (shown ABOVE).
What is a Christian Gutenberg Bible? The Apostle Thomas founded the Christian Church in INDIA in 52 AD. Catholic Christians adopted the Latin language Bible in 404 AD. Between 476 & 1453 AD was the Fall of Rome. In 1436 AD Johannes Gutenberg invented printing using “free non-connected” Latin letters for the Christian Bible. Scientific publishing began with Regiomontanus in the 1470’s using the Gutenberg-style type fonts.
A list of “Books Famous in Science” is BENEATH. Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998 is a validation of value of dichotomy of the two (2) different Latin script forms. The “connected-cursive” scripts are not adaptable to the mechanization of printing press.
TIMETABLE OF EVENTS.
| 52 | Ezharappallikal (Apostle Thomas Church). |
| 404 | Saint Jerome, “Vulgate (Latin) Bible”. |
| 476 | Fall of the Western Roman Empire. |
| 1436 | Johannes Gutenberg invents printing. |
| 1453 | Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire. |
FAMOUS SCIENCE BOOKS.
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.
Jan Baptist van Helmont, Ortus Medicinae (“Origins of Medicine”) 1648.
Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist’, 1661.
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.
Marie Curie, “Radio-Active Substances”, 1904.
Albert Einstein’, “Special Relativity”, 1905.
