The Classic, Beautiful and Controversial Books That Changed Science Forever (via Wired)
“Without the work of intellectual giants like Einstein, Newton and Darwin, we might still be in the dark ages. But how many scientists still read the dust-ridden texts where these luminaries first expounded their theories? Thanks to the internet, you no longer have to hunt down these yellowing tomes in a moldy library vault. Here’s the story of 9 famous publications that spun the scientific world off its orbit.”
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“On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres” by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543
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“Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” by Galileo Galilei, 1632
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“Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” by Isaac Newton, 1687
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“On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin, 1859
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“Micrographia” by Robert Hooke, 1665
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“Gray’s Anatomy” by Henry Gray, 1858
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“Elements of Chemistry” by Antoine Lavoisier, 1789
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“Principles of Chemistry” by Dmitri Mendeleev, 1868–1870
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“A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism” by James Clerk Maxwell, 1873
Read all about them at wired.com
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