Scientific Publications

Given only publication dates and the authors' names, can you complete the titles of each of these famous scientific works?

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Year	Authors	Answer
c. 300 BC	Euclid	The Elements
1542	Recorde	Arithmetick: or, The Grounde of Arts
1661	Boyle	The Sceptical Chymist
1687	Newton	Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
1763	Bayes	An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
1859	Darwin	On the Origin of Species
1905	Einstein	On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
1918	Noether	Invariant Variation Problems
1921	Curie	The Discovery of Radium
1951	Lowry et al	Protein measurement with the folin phenol reagant
1953	Watson and Crick	Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
1956	Miner	Body Ritual among the Nacirema
1985	Farman et al	Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction
1988	Hawking	A Brief History of Time
2017	Vaswani et al	Attention Is All You Need

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