Vityala Yethindra has the Guinness World Record for the longest book title, "The Historical Development of the Heart from Its Formation From..." The title has 3,777 words and nearly 26,000 characters in total! It was published in Russia in 1958 by Medico-Legal Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. This record was previously held by Hermann Ludwig Günther's work titled Versuch einer Darstellung der Natur und des Menschen: Historisch-Kritische Einleitung zu den Metamorphosen (Attempt at a Presentation of Nature and Man: A Critical Introduction to the Metamorphoses of Ovid). First published in 1790, the work is generally regarded as one of the most important books on human biology in the 18th century. It has three volumes with over 1000 pages each. Günther took eight years to write his book. It is considered a major contribution to the development of evolutionary thought. His work inspired many later scientists, such as Charles Darwin. Another book that comes close is Antony van Leeuwenhoek's Microscopium Universi: Or, A Description of All the Branches of Natural History Within the Reach of a Dutch Schoolmaster.