Back to 1300: Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267645 That to Study Ph

Back to 1300: Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267645 That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die (1580): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611980 The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735432 Qvestions of Love, and the Ansvvers (1566): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836805 Concerning Prohibited Books (1563): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139174 Magia Naturalis (1558): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736083 Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603305 De Re Metallica (1556): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8381659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8381659 The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (1542): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247090 Carta Marina (1539): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517, submitted multiple times Tabulae anatomicae by Andreas Vesalius (1538): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517, submitted multiple times Chapter III. Concerning Mixed Principalities (1532): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450709 (an excerpt from Machiavelli) The Very First Written Use of the F Word in English (1528): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220683 (although the post it links to wasn't written in 1528) Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30496850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30496850 Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187316 Kitchen Appliances: Bedlam in da Vinci's kitchen (1490): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890162 Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume (1482): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7102356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7102356 Evrard D'Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (Ca. 1480) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117656 The Virgin and Child, three heads in profile and other sketches (c. 1478-1480): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054300 The Ideal City (1480-1484): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284222 Destroy the printing press (1473): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921971 Behold the Nebulous Smear: al-Sūfī's Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38080228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38080228 The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (1410): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818057 Equatorie of the Planetis (1393): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813851 Isabella of Valois, Queen of England, married at the age of 6 (1389): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37460751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37460751 Marckalada: The First Mention of America in the Mediterranean Area (C. 1340): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34416544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34416544 The Divine Comedy (1321): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710792 Towards the end multiples of 10 become more common - I suspect a lot of the years aren't exact. Also some (1528, 1389) are "when the thing happened" and not "when the text was written"