When looking through her Grandma’s Library, Reddit user roostarfeesh found a book from 1594. That is one old freaking book.
Really freaking old book, via Reddit
Here are some of the things that have happened in the world since this book was published:
1. Shakespeare
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Othello was first presented in Nov of 1604, ten years after this book was published. McBeth was presented in 1606. Who knows, maybe this book provided some inspiration for the playwright?
2. Galileo
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The man invented the telescope, saw space, and then was told by the Romans to stop his belief in heliocentrism (or believing the earth revolves around the sun.)
3. The Dodo became extinct
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The flightless bird left this earth after waddling around since the ice age, all thanks to the Dutch sailors eating it. But did it taste like chicken?
5. America, you know, happened
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All the way back to the first Pilgrim settlers in 1607, this book has lived through it. Shout out to the Native Americans, who helped the settlers learn to grow corn and be self-sufficient.
5. Witches
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Things called coincidences were once called black magic. If someone died? Boom. Black magic. A witch killed them. Burn them at stake.
6. The French Revolution
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The inspiration for Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserable” began in 1799. This is what took the French monarchy and made it a republic.
7. Charles Darwin
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Another scientist, ahead of his time. The creator of Darwinism, which sparked the theory of evolution, piqued over 300 years after this incredibly old book was published.
8. Gravity
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From Galileo’s balls dropping (no, not those ones) on the tower of Pisa, to Newton’s equations, the theory of gravity came to be, this ancient book has stood the test of time and the elements.
9. Titanic, and other tragedies
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Including Nuclear War, The Holocaust, and two world wars. This novel has avoided all the destruction, having only surrendered its cover over the past four centuries.
10. Moonwalking
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Either Micheal Jackson or NASA’s, they both came after this Latin manuscript. It was around both during the first telescopes look into space AND humans setting foot there.
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