Chapter 18, Kyle Hardison
Copernicus's 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'
1543
Kepler formulates the three laws of planetary motion
1609 - 1619
Descartes' mathematical vision
1619
Galileo's 'Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World'
1632
The Trial of Galileo
1633
The Royal Society of London created
1662
'Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds'
1686
Newton's 'Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy'
1687
Locke's 'Second Treatise of Civil Government'
1690
Bayle's 'Historical and Critical Dictionary'
1697
Montesquieu's 'The Persian Letters'
1721
Maria Theresa gives Silesia to Prussia
1742
Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of Laws'
1748
Rousseau's 'The Social Contract'
1762
Peter III overthrown in Russia
1762
Catherine orders new law codes to be made
1767
Condorcet's 'Progress of the Human Mind'
1793