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So far, on the Greatest Science/Math/Medicine Books Of All Time list:
Aristotle - 330 B.C.E - Physica
Euclid - 330 B.C.E - Στοιχεῖα Stoicheia
Archimedes - 250 B.C.E - On the Equilibrium of Planes
da Vinci - ???? - Codex Leicester
Copernicus - 1543 - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Vesalius - 1543 - De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Agricola - 1556 - De re metallica
Bruno, Giordano - 1584 - De l'Infinito Universo et Mondi
Galileo - 1632 - Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
Hooke - 1665 - Micrographia
Newton - 1687 - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Pasteur - 18?? - Fermentations et générations dites spontanées
Bohr - 1913 - On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules
Einstein - 1917 - Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie
Heisenberg - 1930 - The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
Watson - 1968 - The Double Helix
It seems like kind of a dead period between 1687 and 1913. I'm sure it wasn't really, but I'm looking for events to fill that time in.
Aristotle - 330 B.C.E - Physica
Euclid - 330 B.C.E - Στοιχεῖα Stoicheia
Archimedes - 250 B.C.E - On the Equilibrium of Planes
da Vinci - ???? - Codex Leicester
Copernicus - 1543 - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Vesalius - 1543 - De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Agricola - 1556 - De re metallica
Bruno, Giordano - 1584 - De l'Infinito Universo et Mondi
Galileo - 1632 - Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
Hooke - 1665 - Micrographia
Newton - 1687 - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Pasteur - 18?? - Fermentations et générations dites spontanées
Bohr - 1913 - On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules
Einstein - 1917 - Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie
Heisenberg - 1930 - The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
Watson - 1968 - The Double Helix
It seems like kind of a dead period between 1687 and 1913. I'm sure it wasn't really, but I'm looking for events to fill that time in.