#caveat that yes of course they were both building off others' work and scientific revolutions are a [ehhhh handwave] concept
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Fucked up that Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium and Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica were published the same year. 1543 was just like. Hey what if all of science changed so much forever.
#caveat that yes of course they were both building off others' work and scientific revolutions are a [ehhhh handwave] concept#thomas kuhn do not interact etc etc#but like#those are both such important publications in the history of science#in totally different fields (astronomy and medicine)#big year for natural philosophers
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