12 Publications that changed mankind

[Thaibiker]

Just for fun, this is the list of the ten most important events in the second millenium, published by Life magazine at the turn of the century.

5 Discovery that Earth revolves around sun (Galileo Galilei, 1610)
Copernicus, Aristarchus were first! (taking nothing from Galileo)

 

[davidmc]

Just for fun, this is the list of the ten most important events in the second millenium, published by Life magazine at the turn of the century.

5 Discovery that Earth revolves around sun (Galileo Galilei, 1610)
Copernicus, Aristarchus were first! (taking nothing from Galileo)

We'd have to include Tyco de Brae as well:

His life in a few important years
1566. Tycho Brahe studies in Rostock. His nose is damaged in an accident.
1572. A supernova appears in the sky in the formation Cassiopeia. Tycho Brahe observes it carefully, and publishes his findings about the "new star", Stella Nova in latin, and becomes known as a respected astronomer. See also observations.
1576. Tycho Brahe received the island Hven from king Fredrik II.
8/8 1576. The foundation of the castle Uranienborg om the island.
Tycho Brahe studies the stars (take a look!) at Uranienborg and Stjerneborg.
1597. Tycho Brahe looses the royal support and leave the island.
Tycho goes to Wandsbech (near Hamburg) and then to Prag.
Emperor Rudolf II gives him the castle Benatky 30 km from Prag, but he later moves to a house in Prag suited for observations.
1600. Johannes Kepler is employed as an assistant.
1601. Tycho Brahe dies. Kepler writes down his last words: "Ne frustra vixisse videar" (May I not seemed to have lived in vain).

http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/index.html

 

[Thaibiker]

brahe was by far the best observational astronomer of his day, but it was Kepler who turned his observations into simple but brilliant laws of planetary motion.

 

[limerickman]

Very interesting and informative contributions, all.

 

[bkaapcke]

The King James Bible? What has that filth done for mankind except bring misery and pain on a grand scale? bk

 

[Alpha]

He left out Playboy Magazine 1953.

Don't forget Penthouse and Hustler

 

[bananabrain]

He left out Playboy Magazine 1953.

Indeed. That would definitely come somewhere before the 1863 FA Rulebook, and somewhere after "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity [1916]".