Arthur Machen
Around 1890 Machen began to publish in literary magazines, writing stories influenced by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, some of which used gothic or fantastic themes. This led to his first major success, "The Great God Pan". It was published in 1894 by John Lane in the noted Keynotes Series, which was part of the growing aesthetic movement of the time. Machen's story was widely denounced for its sexual and horrific content and consequently sold well, going into a second edition.
Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano)
The Ars Magna ("The Great Art") is an important Latin-language book on algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545 under the title "Artis Magnæ, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber Unus" ("Book number one about The Great Art, or The Rules of Algebra"). There was a second edition in Cardano's lifetime, published in 1570. It is considered one of the three greatest scientific treatises of the early Renaissance, together with Copernicus' "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" and Vesalius' "De humani corporis fabrica". The first editions of these three books were published within a two-year span (1543–1545).