What is List of science books?
The '''List of science books''' is mainly got from: * ''Printing and the Mind of Man: a descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilisation during five centuries''. Compiled by John Carter and Percy H. Muir. Karl Pressler, München (Munich) 1983. The list here does not notice [[mathematics]] or [[technology]], although these subjects are related to science. == The list == === 1st century AD / 15th century === # Gaius Plinius Secundus ([[Pliny the Elder]], 23–79 AD) ''[[Pliny the Elder#Pliny's Natural History|Historia naturalis]]''. Venice, 1469. Pliny's ''Natural History'' is an encyclopedia of the scientific and technical knowledge of the ancient world. === 16th century === # [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] (1473–1543) ''[[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium]]''. Nuremberg, 1543. The first step to modern science. # [[Conrad Gessner]] (1516–1565) ''[[Historiae animalium]]''. 5 vols, Zurich 1551–57. An encyclopedia of animals, illustrated by [[woodcut]]s. === 17th century === # [[Wiliam Gilbert]] (1544–1603) ''De magnete''. London 1600. First to propose that the Earth was one large magnet. # [[Johannes Kepler]] (1571–1630) ''[[Astronomia nova]]''. Heidelberg 1609. The laws of planetary motion. # [[Galileo Galilei]] (1564–1642) ## ''Siderius nuncius''. Venice 1610. Discovery of 'new worlds' with the [[telescope]]. ## ''Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, Tolemaico et Copernicano''. Florence, 1632. The famous 'dialogue between two world systems, [[Geocentrism|Ptolemaic]] and [[Heliocentrism|Copernican]]'. ## ''Discorsi et demonstrazioni mathematiche''. Leiden 1638. Includes mathematics of motion in support of his previous work. # [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657) ''Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus.'' Frankfurt 1628. Proof of the circulation of blood; fundamental to [[physiology]] and [[medicine]]. # [[Robert Boyle]] (1627–1691) ## ''[[The Sceptical Chymist|The sceptical chymist]]''. London 1661. The foundation of chemistry. ## ''New experim