Harrison Horblit, 100 Books Famous in Science’, 1964. PART SIX (6) was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Louis Braille (1809-1852), “Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots”, 1829.
INTRODUCTION.
Harrison Horblit gave an excellent list of one-hundred (100) books famous in science. However, the list contains no linguistic books. My opinion is that Louis Braille, “Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots”, 1829 is the zeroth (0) book in my counting to one-hundred (100). Blindness occurs in all speech populations, and the ability to write when sightless is my reason for inclusion of Louis Braille. BELOW is the timeline of the greatest scientific books of each century since the printing press invention.
SCIENCE BOOKS TIMELINE.
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” (Origin of Medicine), 1648.
Robert Boyle, “The Sceptical Chymist”, 1661.
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.
Louis Braille, “Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots”, 1829.
Charles Darwin, “Origin of the Species”, 1859.
Dmitri Mendeleev, “Principles of Chemistry”, 1869.
Paul Passy, “International Phonetic Alphabet”, 1886.
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Marie Curie, “Radioactive Substances”, 1904.
Albert Einstein’, “Special Relativity”, 1905.
