Query: books from 1569 or 1559, or 1789 non-fiction books
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Florentine Codex
Hortus Kewensis
Planine
The History of the Reformation in Scotland
Magdeburg Centuries
The Partisan in War
What Is the Third Estate?
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Oryctographia Carniolica
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie
Evidence from documents: Florentine Codex: a complex document, assembled, edited, and appended over decades. Essentially it is three integral texts: (1) in Nahuatl; (2) a Spanish text; (3) pictorials. The final version of the Florentine Codex was completed in 1569
Hortus Kewensis: '''''Hortus Kewensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew''''' by William Aiton was a 1789 catalogue of all the plant species then in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which constituted the vast majority of plant species in cultivation in all of England. It included information on the country of origin, who introduced the plant into English cultivation, and when. It is therefore now one of the most important sources of information on history of horticulture in England.
Planine: a work of prose fiction, generally considered to be the first Croatian novel. It was written by Petar Zoranić in 1536 and published posthumously in Venice in 1569.
The History of the Reformation in Scotland: a five-volume book written by the Scottish reformer, John Knox, between 1559 and 1566.
In 1559 during the Scottish Reformation, the leaders of the Protestant nobility, the Lords of the Congregation, asked Knox to write a history of the movement. This short pamphlet became the second book of the ''History''.
Magdeburg Centuries: books from 1569 or 1559,: an ecclesiastical history, divided into thirteen ''centuries'', covering thirteen hundred years, ending in 1298; it was first published from 1559 to 1574.
1559,: The first three folio volumes of the work appeared in 1559 at Basel.
The Partisan in War: The treatise was dedicated in 1789 to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.
What Is the Third Estate?: a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French writer and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836)
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: a book by the English philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Bentham "originally printed in 1780, and first published in 1789." Bentham's "most important theoretical work," it is where Bentham develops his theory of utilitarianism and is the first major book on the topic.
Oryctographia Carniolica: 1789
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: '''''The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne''''', or just '''''The Natural History of Selborne''''' is a book by English parson-naturalist Gilbert White (1720–1793). It was first published in 1789 by his brother Benjamin.
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie: '''''Traité élémentaire de chimie''''' ('''''Elementary Treatise on Chemistry''''') is a textbook written by Antoine Lavoisier published in 1789