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Georgii Joachimi Rhetici, “Narratio Prima”, 1540.

Georgii Joachimi Rhetici, “Narratio Prima”, 1540 was a nonfiction science book written by the pupil of Nicolaus Copernicus.  Nicolaus Copernicus, “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres”, 1543 is the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.  Georgii Joachimi Rhetici, “Narratio Prima”, 1540 was “marketed” ahead of the release of the 1543 full-version of Copernicus.   The Scientific … Continue reading Georgii Joachimi Rhetici, “Narratio Prima”, 1540.

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Xavier Bichat, “General Anatomy: Applied to Physiology and Medicine”, 1801.

Xavier Bichat, “General Anatomy; Applied to Physiology and Medicine”, 1801 was a nonfiction medical book.  The book is famous in that  Xavier Bichat uses the term “tissues”, making it an historic first coining of “tissues“.  An “anatomy” is not an “eidonomy” (external morphology); anatomy is internal morphology.  The “macroscopic”, anatomy of “organs” was already known before … Continue reading Xavier Bichat, “General Anatomy: Applied to Physiology and Medicine”, 1801.

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Simon Stevin, “De Thiende: The Art of Tenth”, 1585.

  Edwin Abbot, “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”, 1884 was the topic of an earlier blog post. Here I present: Simon Stevin, “De Thiende: The Art of Tenth“, 1585 which was a nonfiction, mathematics book; and, “Disme: The Art of the Tenth” is the English title translation of 1608.   The idea of extending … Continue reading Simon Stevin, “De Thiende: The Art of Tenth”, 1585.

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Wilhelm Max Wundt, "Principles of Physiological Psychology", 1874.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, “The Works of the Digestive Glands”, 1897,  was the topic of an earlier blog post.  Here I present Wilhelm Max Wundt, “Principles of Physiological Psychology”, 1874 which influenced the work of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov.  Wilhelm Max Wundt is the “father of modern Psychology”; and, the first person to refer himself as a … Continue reading Wilhelm Max Wundt, "Principles of Physiological Psychology", 1874.