Here I present: Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998, PART FIVE (V).
INTRODUCTION.
The printer Johannes Gutenberg ranked in the book by Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 Years: 1000 People”, 1998 as the most influential person in the millennium. I wish to include Louis Braille’ for “Procedure for Writing Words, Music & Plainsong in Dots”, 1829 as being amongst the influential people of the millennium.
Braille type is an early example of binary coding of information as flat or raised dots.
The digital age we live in today can be traced to Charles Babbage computing & Louis Braille binary code.
Charles Babbage and Louis Braille devised digital means (in a mechanical era) that are the foundation of digital age (in an electronic era).
BELOW is a list of famous science books of the millennium, with Louis Braille, “Procedure for Writing Words, Music & Plainsong in Dots”, 1829 included.
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.
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 & Plainsong in Dots”, 1829.
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.
