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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1301–1400

The Fourteenth Century

1 work

1377

Old French

The Book of the Heavens and the World

Livre du ciel et du monde

Nicole Oresme · c. 1320–1382

A translation of and commentary on Aristotle for the king of France, arguing at length that nothing observable rules out the earth turning daily on its axis — and then declining to believe it.

Scholastic · Natural philosophyRead elsewhere