Het was weer een leuke exercitie. Ditmaal stelden de reaguurders de lijst van belangrijkste wetenschappelijke werken op. Naast een paar uitspattingen (wat is immers wetenschap) bevat het waarschijnlijk wel alle relevante werken. De top 10 geeft een fantastische spreiding door de tijd aan, van Plato tot Einstein. Verderop staan er ook nog wat recentere werken.
De vraag aan de reaguurders is nu, hoeveel van deze werken heeft u persoonlijk geheel of gedeeltelijk gelezen? Persoonlijk kom ik niet verder dan 6, waarvan maar 2 volledig.
1. Isaac Newton – Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (121)
2. Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species (119)
3. Euclides – Elementen (58)
4. Karl Marx – Das Kapital (46)
5. Albert Einstein – Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitātstheorie (35)
6. Adam Smith – An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (32)
6. Albert Einstein – Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper (32)
8. Galileo Galilei – Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze (30)
9. James Clerk Maxwell – A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field (24)
10. Immanuel Kant – Kritik der reinen Vernunft (21)
11. Nicolaus Copernicus – De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (19)
11. Plato – Politeia (19)
13. Galileo Galilei – Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (18)
13. Louis Pasteur – Mémoire sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère. Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées (18)
15. Alfred Wegener – Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (16)
15. Carl Friedrich Gauss – Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (16)
15. Descartes – Discours de la Méthode (16)
15. Gottlob Frege – Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens (16)
15. Sun Tzu – The Art of War (16)
20. Kuhn – The structure of scientific revolutions (15)
21. Baruch Spinoza – Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (14)
22. Edgar Frank (Ted) Codd – A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (13)
23. Karl Popper – The Logic of Scientific Discovery (12)
23. Kurt Gödel – Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia mathematica und verwandter Systeme (12)
23. Niccolò Machiavelli – Il Principe (12)
26. Francis Bacon – Novum Organum (10)
26. Georges Prosper Remi – Objectif lune (10)
26. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – A discourse on the inequality of mankind (10)
26. Leonardo da Vinci – aantekenboeken (10)
26. Leonhard Euler – Elements of Algebra (10)
26. Michel Foucault – De geschiedenis van de waanzin (10)
26. Ptolomeus – Geografia (10)
26. Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship – Robert Baden-Powell (10)
26. Sigmund Freud – Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens (10)
26. Stuart Kauffman – At home in the universe (10)
36. Alfred Russel Wallace – On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species (9)
36. Alonzo Church – The calculi of lambda conversion. (9)
36. Aristoteles – Ethica (9)
36. C. Plinius – Naturalis Historiae (9)
36. Gottlob Frege – Uber Sinn und Bedeutung (9)
36. Jeremy Rifkin – Into the greenhouse world (9)
36. Johan Huizinga – In de schaduwen van morgen (9)
36. Kernighan and Ritchie – The C Programming Language (9)
36. Luca Pacioli – Divina Proportione (9)
36. Maurice Merleau-Ponty – Phénoménologie de la perception (9)
36. Michael Faraday – Experimental Researches in Electricity (9)
36. Thomas Jefferson – The independence of the United States of America (9)
48. Adrien-Marie Legendre – méthode des moindres carrés (8)
48. Albert Einstein – Annus Mirabilis werken (8)
48. Alexander Fleming – On the antibacterial action of cultures of a Penicillium with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae (British Journal of Experimental Pathology, 1929) (8)
48. Baruch Spinoza – Ethica (8)
48. Bertand Russel – The Principles of Mathematics (8)
48. Bjarne Stroustrup – The C++ Programming Language (8)
48. Blaise Pascal – Traite du triangle arithmetique (8)
48. Boole – An investigation into the Laws of Thought, on Which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (8)
48. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz – Considerations on Gravitation (8)
48. Masaaki Imai – Kaizen (8)
48. Panini – Verzamelalbum voetbal 1978 (8)
48. Sir James George Frazer – The Golden Bough (8)
48. Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (8)
61. Frederic Taylor – The Principles of Scientific Management (7)
61. Gerard Reve – Zelf schrijver worden (7)
61. Hobbes – Leviathan (7)
61. James Hutton – Theory of the Earth (7)
61. Karl Pearson – The Grammar of Science (7)
61. Paul Davies – How to build a time machine (7)
61. Ptolemy – Almagest (7)
61. Watson, J.D. and F.H. Crick – A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acids (7)
61. Wittgenstein – Philosophische Untersuchungen (7)
70. Alan Turing – Computing machinery and intelligence (6)
70. Alfred Russel Wallace – The Geographic Distribution of Animals (6)
70. Al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmus) – Algebra (6)
70. Amy Groskamp-Ten Have – Hoe hoort het eigenlijk (6)
70. Andreus Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica (6)
70. Aquino – Summa Theologica (6)
70. Berkeley Breathed – Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (6)
70. Carla Hansen – Pol op een onbewoond eiland (6)
70. Charles Lyle – Principles of Geology (6)
70. Claude Shannon – A Mathematical Theory of Communication (6)
70. David Hilbert – Grundlagen der Geometrie (6)
70. Edger Wybe Dijkstra – A Case against the GO TO Statement (6)
70. Edmund Husserl – Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzentale Phänomenologie (6)
70. Edward Tufte – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (6)
70. Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf – Onderzoekstypen in de communicatiewetenschap (6)
70. George Berkeley – A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (6)
70. Ignaz Semmelweis, Die Ätiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) – (leeg) (6)
70. James Maxwell – A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (6)
70. John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman – SAS Survival Guide (6)
70. John Gray – Straw dogs (6)
70. John Rawls – A Theory of Justice (6)
70. Karl Marx – Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (6)
70. Karl Popper – Conjectures and refutations (6)
70. Karl Popper – The open society and its enemies (6)
70. KMA Breda – Handboek voor den Soldaat (6)
70. Lavoisier – Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d’après les découvertes modernes (6)
70. Leo Strauss – Persecution and the art of Writing, City and Man. (6)
70. Max Planck – Vorlesungen über Thermodynamik (6)
70. Max Weber – Wirtshaft un Gesellschaft (6)
70. Montesqieu – Geest der wet (6)
70. Nancy Friday – My Secret Garden (6)
70. Noam Chomsky – Syntactic Structures (6)
70. Pjotr Kropotkin – Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (6)
70. Planck, Max – On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum. Annalen der Physik (6)
70. Richard P. Feynman – The Feynman Lectures on Physics (6)
70. Rik Zaal – Spanje (6)
70. Robert Dahl – Polyarchie (6)
70. Ronald Aylmer Fisher – The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance (6)
70. Sherehazade – Libelle. (6)
70. Stephen Hawkin – A Brief History of Time (6)
70. Struyck, N. – Inleiding tot de allgemeene geographie, benevens eenige sterrekundige en andere verhandelingen. (6)
70. Thomas Belt – A naturalist in Nicaragua (6)
70. Werner Heisenberg – Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik (6)
70. William Sealy Gosset – The probable error of a mean (6)
70. William Shockley – Electrons and holes in semiconductors, with applications to transistor electronics (6)
