Donald E. Knuth's ["Johann Faulhaber and sums of powers"][1] debunks common belief (mentioned at [at Mathworld][2], for example) that Faulhaber was first to discover Bernoulli formula and even (to some extent) Bernoulli numbers.

  [1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/9207222
  [2]: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FaulhabersFormula.html