Here I present: “Medical Books Millennium Timeline”.
Two (2) inventors: (T’sai Lun & Johannes Gutenberg) made history by giving the millennium “writing paper“ & “the paper press“.
BELOW are the greatest medical books of each century of the millennium.
MEDICAL BOOKS MILLENNIUM TIMELINE.
ELEVENTH CENTURY.
Avicenna, “Canon of Medicine”, 1025.
TWELFTH CENTURY.
Averroes, “General Principles of Medicine”, 1162.
THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
William of Saliceto, “Anatomia (Chirurgia)”, 1275.
FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
Guido de Vigevano, “Anothomia Philippi Septimi”, 1345.
FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
Leonardo da Vinci, “Vitruvian Man”, 1490.
SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Andreas Vesalius, “On the Fabric of the Human Body”, 1543.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
William Harvey, “Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings“, 1628.
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Carl Linnaeus, “Genera morborum (Genera of Diseases)”, 1759.
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
William Osler, “Principles and Practice of Medicine“, 1892.
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Victor McKusick, Mendelian Inheritance in Man’,1966.
