Euclid’s Elements (13 books)
Isaac Newton - Principia Mathematica. For example, so much of our modern world would not be possible without calculus.
Assuming you’re counting their impact throughout history, and not just the contemporary world:
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
Ptolemy’s Almagest
Al-Khwarizmi’s Al-Jabr
Newton’s PrincipiaThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx…
Which was supposed to be progressive and utopian…
Then a bunch of Authoritarians came up with a fucked up interpretations of it and gave rise to Stalinism and Maoism and the CCP…
So that lead to the Cold War and the world nearly ended… but humanity is still here thanks to the heroes like Vasily Arkhipov and Stannislav Petrov amonst various others who prevented global nuclear war.
And then the CCP made the One Child Policy and I almost got forcibly aborted by the CCP because of that policy…
I wasn’t supposed to exist. I’m supposed to be an aborted fetus… 💀
Marx is just rolling in his grave
That’s a great example.
Glad you made it.
