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Spanish science fiction starts mid 19th century; depending on how it is defined, Lunigrafía (1855) from M. Krotse or Una temporada en el más bello de los planetas from Tirso Aguimana de Veca — a trip to Saturn published in 1870-1871, but written in the 1840s — is the first science fiction novel.
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August 24/25 – Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War, resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg, the Apologist codex ...
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes book-length story originally published as The Sign of the Four in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated February) Lanoe Falconer – Mademoiselle Ixe; Knut Hamsun – Hunger (Sult) E. W. Hornung – A Bride from the Bush; Rudyard Kipling – The Light That Failed (in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891)
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) Cyclopaedia of Political Science - Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers] (1881–1899), John J. Lalor; The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908, mainly self-published)
The print runs were among the highest of any scientific book published in the second half of the 19th century, [11] and Brewer said the success of the book was almost unparalleled at the time. [1] Several translations of the book were made including a Spanish translation in 1858 [ 16 ] and two French translations. [ 17 ]
One of a handful of surviving copies of the 1900 second Socialist Labor Party edition of Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science. Rather than a wholly new work, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was an extract from a larger polemic work written in 1876, Herrn Eugen Dühring's Umwälzung der Wissenschaft (Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science), commonly known as Anti-Dühring. [4]