Here I present: Harrison Horblit, 100 Books Famous in Science’, 1964. PART SIX (6).
INTRODUCTION.
Harrison Horblit was a famous bibliophile collector of science books. Claudius Ptolemy, “Cosmographia”, 1477 was part of the collection of Harrison Horblit science books. The printing press circulated large copies of this book in 1477. This book contains “geocentric maps”, and today we all know that correct view is “heliocentric maps”.
Geographic Guidance (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις6) known as Cosmographia, by Claudius Ptolemy was by written in Greek at Alexandria, EGYPT in 150 AD’, using Persian principles. However, if it was not for the Greco-Persian transmission during the “medieval dark age” this book, and no other scientific books would be in the Harrison Horblit book collection. The “Science Book Timeline” is given BELOW, including West Asians transmitting ancient Greek ideas in West Asia.
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.
Marie Curie, “Radioactive Substances”, 1904.
Albert Einstein, “Special Relativity”, 1905.
