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Marcus Aurelius
121 - 180
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Emperor Constantine the Great
280 - 337
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Pope Sylvester I
314 - 335
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Saint Jerome
340 - 420
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Aurelius Augustine
354 - 430
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Proclus
410 - 485
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Saint Benedict
480 - 543
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Muhammad
570 - 632
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caliph Omar
581 - 644
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Prince Shotoku
593 - 622
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Venerable Bede
673 - 735
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nun-empress Koken
718 - 770
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English Monk Acuin
732 - 804
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Smallpox epidemic
735 - 737
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Charlemagne
742 - 814
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Al-Kindi
813 - 873
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Ibn al-Haytham
956 - 1039
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Sung Renaissance
960 - 1127
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Avicenna
980 - 1037
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Ise Monogatari
980
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Al-Biruni
1050
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Yeh Menh-Te
1077 - 1148
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Peter the Venerable
1092 - 1156
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History of the Kings of Britain
1150
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Emperor Frederick II
1194 - 1250
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Kublai Khan
1216 - 1295
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Roger Bacon
1220 - 1292
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
1225 - 1274
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Mongol's Yuan dynasty
1260 - 1368
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Summa Theologiae
1267 - 1273
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Birth of Guillaume de Machaut, French musician and poet.
1300
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Francesco Petrarch
1304 - 1374
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Petrarch
1304 - 1374
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Latin was used by Bartolus
1314 - 1357
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Charles IV
1316 - 1378
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John Wycliffe
1330 - 1384
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Ibn Khaldun
1332 - 1406
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Black Death
1348
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Ming
1368 - 1644
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New Ming dynasty
1368 - 1644
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Printed playing cards became known in Germany and Spain
1377
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The Council of Venice had to pass a law to protect its printers of cards.
1377
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Johann Gutenberg
1394 - 1468
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Nicholas V
1397 - 1455
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Toscanelli
1397 - 1482
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Lorenzo Valla
1407 - 1457
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Pope Alexander V died suddenly in Bologna
1410
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King Henry V came to the throne on March 21.
1413
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King Sejong the Great
1419 - 1450
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Vespasiano da Bisticci
1421 - 1498
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William Caxton
1422 - 1491
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Marsilio Ficino
1433 - 1499
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They came up with a new Han'gul of twenty-five letters.
1446
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Aldus Manutius
1450 - 1515
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Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca
1451 - 1524
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Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
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Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
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Gutenberg's Bible was printed with movable type and came off the press in Mainz.
1454
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Johann Reachlin
1455 - 1522
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Schoffer had testified against Gutenberg in trial.
1455
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Latin Psalter
1457
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Catholican
1460
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Johann Froben
1460 - 1527
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Thomas Linacre
1460 - 1524
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Pico della Mirandola
1463 - 1494
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Erasmus
1466 - 1536
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Erasmus
1466 - 1536
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Pope Paul III
1468 - 1549
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Martin Fernandez de Enciso
1470 - 1528
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Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 - 1543
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Nicolaus Copernicus was born
1473
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Bartolome de Las Casas
1474 - 1566
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Michelangelo
1475 - 1564
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Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy
1475
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Sebastian Cabot
1476 - 1557
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The Game and Playe of Chesse
1476
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Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers
1477
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Vocabolario Italiano-Teutonico
1477
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English-French Vocabulary
1480
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Ferdinand Magellan
1480 - 1521
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Luther
1483 - 1546
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The satires of Rabelais
1483 - 1553
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Joachim Vadianus
1484 - 1551
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Physica of Albertus Magnus was printed in Venice.
1488
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Otto Brunfels
1489 - 1534
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Antonio Pigafetta
1491 - 1534
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Paracelsus
1493 - 1541
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Anthologia Graeca was printed in Venice.
1494
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Melanchthon
1497 - 1560
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Andreas Osiander
1498 - 1552
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Hieronymus Bock
1498 - 1554
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Leonhart Fuchs
1501 - 1566
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Pierandrea Mattioli
1501 - 1577
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Pedro Nunes
1502 - 1578
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Robert Estienne
1503 - 1559
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Johannes Oporinus
1507 - 1568
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Johannes Sturm
1507 - 1589
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Calvin
1509 - 1564
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John Caius (pronounced "Keys")
1510 - 1573
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Realdo Colombo
1510 - 1559
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Erasmus Reinhold
1511 - 1553
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Gerardus Mercator
1512 - 1594
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Andreas Vesalius
1514 - 1564
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George Joachim
1514 - 1574
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Konrad Gesner
1516 - 1565
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Charles V announced his support for Magellan
1518
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Andrea Cesalpino
1519 - 1603
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paul III was not ordained a priest until this time.
1519
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The determined Magellan departed.
1519
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Joachim du Bellay
1522 - 1560
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Martin Luther set about translating the Bible.
1522 - 1534
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Gabriello Fallopio
1523 - 1562
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Pierre de Ronsard
1524 - 1585
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In Venice came the first printed Greek edition of Galen.
1525
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Abraham Ortelius
1527 - 1598
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Froben died suddenly in October
1527
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St. John's Day, June, 24
1527
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Jean Bodin
1530 - 1596
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Living Portraits of Plants (Herbarum Vivae Eicones)
1530
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Fabricius ab Aquapendente
1533 - 1619
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The essays of Montaigne
1533 - 1592
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Cosimo de' Medici exercised a special censorship.
1537 - 1574
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Basel
1538
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Villers-Cotterets
1539
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Leonardo Salviati
1540 - 1589
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Rheticus' First Report required a second edition.
1541
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Cardinal Robert Bellarmine
1542 - 1621
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Copernicus' De Revolutionibus
1543
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De Revolutionibus
1543
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Mercator was caught in a roundup of suspected Lutherans.
1544
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William Gilbert
1544 - 1603
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Tycho Brahe
1546 - 1601
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Giordano Bruno
1548 - 1600
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Simon Stevin
1548 - 1620
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The Defense and Illustration of the French Language
1549
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John Napier
1550 - 1617
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Paolo Sarpi
1552 - 1623
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Christianismi Restitutio
1553
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Mercator's great map of Europe.
1554
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Santorio
1561 - 1636
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Galileo Galilei
1564 - 1642
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Las Casas died at the age of ninety-two
1566
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Steven was appointed tutor to Maurice of Nassau.
1567 - 1625
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The first modern atlas, came off Plantin's Antwerp press on May 20.
1570
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Johannes Kepler
1571 - 1630
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St. Bartholomew's Day
1572
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John Faber
1574 - 1629
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Christopher Schreiner
1575 - 1650
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Charles de Lecluse designated on species as Convolvulus folio Altheae.
1576
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Jan Baptista van Helmont
1577 - 1644
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Sir Francis Drake's voyage around the world
1577 - 1580
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William Harvey
1578 - 1657
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Dutch navigator Willem Schouten
1580 - 1625
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james Ussher
1581 - 1656
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On the Shadows of Ideas, Circe
1582
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Hugo Grotius
1583 - 1645
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Pierre Vernier
1584 - 1638
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The Tenth
1585
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Marin Mersenne
1588 - 1648
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Thomas Hobbes
1588 - 1679
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Zacharias Jansen
1588 - 1631
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The Art of Fortification.
1594
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Descartes
1596 - 1650
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Mysterium Cosmographicum
1596
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"Imperial printings" of Chinese classics.
1597 - 1603
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In a Padua ordinance required a public funeral for every dissected body.
1597
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Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour.
1598
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Ortelius' death
1598
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Gabriel Naude
1600 - 1653
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William Gilbert published his epoch-making work on magnetism.
1600
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Progymnasmata
1602
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Abel Tasman
1603 - 1659
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Italian master composer Claudio Monteverdi writes the opera Orfeo.
1607
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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
1608 - 1679
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John Milton
1608 - 1674
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Steven wrote a book on astronomy
1608
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The word "decimal" was first introduced in the English translation.
1608
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A telescope was seen at the Frankfurt fair.
1609
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German Illustrator George Margraf
1610 - 1644
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Johannes Hevelius
1611 - 1687
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William Gascoigne
1612 - 1644
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Henry Oldenburg
1617 - 1677
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Gabriel Mouton
1618 - 1694
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Thirty Years War
1618 - 1648
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Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
1621
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Galileo went to Rome to pay his respects to the newly enthroned Pope Urban VIII.
1624
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John Collins
1625 - 1683
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Francesco Redi
1626 - 1697
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John Ray
1627 - 1705
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Robert Boyle
1627 - 1691
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Marcello Malpighi
1628 - 1694
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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
1632 - 1723
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Galileo's Dialogue became published in in Florence on February 21.
1632
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The first recorded use of the word "thermometer"
1633
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Francis Willughby
1635 - 1672
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Robert Hooke
1635 - 1703
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The telescope was actually being used to direct artillery ion battle.
1635
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Jan Swammerdam
1637 - 1680
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Nicolaus Steno
1638 - 1686
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Martin Lister
1639 - 1712
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Eustachio Divini
1641 - 1673
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Nehemiah Grew
1641 - 1712
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Galileo died on January 8, a month before his seventy-eight birthday.
1642
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Isaan Newton
1642 - 1727
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Seki Kowa
1642 - 1708
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Sir Isaac Newton
1642 - 1727
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Areopagitica
1644
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John Flamsteed
1646 - 1719
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Leibniz
1646 - 1716
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No record of paper money appear until and issue in Sweden.
1648
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Edward Tyson
1651 - 1708
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Montmor Academy's constitution.
1657
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History of four-footed Beast, Serpents, and Insects.
1658
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The Act of Uniformity, passed by Charles II's Parliament.
1662
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Rudolph Jacob Camerarius
1665 - 1721
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History of the Royal Society
1667
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Giambattista Vico
1668 - 1744
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Herman Boerhaave
1668 - 1738
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Sebastien Vaillant
1669 - 1722
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Matthew Locke composes Psyche, the first surviving English opera.
1675
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The Virtuoso
1676
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Anatomy of a Porpess
1680
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Methodus Plantarum
1682
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A fire consumed Malpighi's house
1684
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Historia Plantarum (3 vols.)
1686 - 1704
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
1687
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Lord Anson
1697 - 1762
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The King of Prussia had founded the Berlin Academy.
1700
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A New English Dictionary
1702
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Carolus Linnaeus
1707 - 1778
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Comte de Buffon
1707 - 1788
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1709
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James Lind
1716 - 1794
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Leibniz died
1716
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Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1717
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Jean le Rone d'Alembert
1717 - 1783
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Johann Joachim Wincklmann
1717 - 1768
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Dictionary of Eleven Languages
1718
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Frederick Hasselquit
1722 - 1752
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French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
1722
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Baron d'Holbach
1723 - 1789
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Baron d'Holbach
1723 - 1789
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Pehr Osbeck
1723 - 1805
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
1724
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James Cook
1728 - 1779
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica english translation.
1729
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Reinhold Forster
1729 - 1798
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Erasmus Darwin
1731 - 1802
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William Cowper
1731 - 1800
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
1733
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Amsterdam
1734 - 1738
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Systema Naturae (leyden)
1735
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System of Nature
1735
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Daniela Solander
1736 - 1782
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Alexander Dalrymple
1737 - 1808
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Horace-Benedict de Saussure
1740 - 1799
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Carl Peter Thunberg
1743 - 1828
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Revernd Samuel Goodenough
1743 - 1827
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Sir Joseph Banks
1743 - 1820
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Thomas Jefferson
1743 - 1826
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Lamarck
1744 - 1829
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Anders Sparrman
1748 - 1820
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Histoire Naturelle
1749 - 1785
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Discours sur le Style
1753
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James Lind published his findings.
1753
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Species Plantarum
1753
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Talleyrand
1754 - 1838
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James Cook volunteered as an able seaman in the Royal Navy.
1755
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Iter Palaestinum
1757
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Noah Webster
1758 - 1843
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Systema Naturae
1758 - 1759
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The publication of Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art.
1764
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Thomas Robert malthus
1766 - 1834
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William Hyde Wollaston
1766 - 1828
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Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
1767
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James Cook was promoted to the commissioned rank of lieutenant.
1768
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James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
1769
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Muhannad' Ali
1769 - 1849
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Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1772 - 1844
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David Bushnell invents a submarine.
1776
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Humphry Davy
1778 - 1829
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James H. Frere
1779 - 1866
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Lord Campbell
1779 - 1861
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American Spelling Book appeared.
1783
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Benjamin Haydon
1786 - 1846
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Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna.
1786
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The Botanic Garden
1789
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Michael Faraday
1791 - 1867
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John Steven Henslow
1796 - 1861
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Lyell
1797 - 1875
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Sir Anthony Panizzi
1797 - 1879
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An Essay on the Principles of Population
1798
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Ferdinand Keller
1800 - 1881
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The word "tourist" entered the English Language.
1800
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Gustav Fechner
1801 - 1887
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Robert Chambers
1802 - 1871
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German philosopher Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was born.
1804
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Augustus De Morgan
1806 - 1871
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Louis Braille
1809 - 1852
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Karl Mark
1818 - 1883
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Thomsen opened his museum to the public
1819
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Friedrich Engles
1820 - 1895
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Heinrich Schliemann
1822 - 1890
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Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895
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Alfred Russel Wallace
1823 - 1913
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German philosopher Friedrich Hegel died in Berlin during a cholera epidemic.
1831
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Notre-Dame de Paris
1831
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Edward Burnett Tylor
1832 - 1917
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Alfred Nobel
1833 - 1896
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Andrew Carnegie
1835 - 1919
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James A.H. Murray
1837 - 1915
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The business depression began.
1837
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Expeditions the Antartic
1839 - 1843
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The New York Philharmonic is established.
1839
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William James
1842 - 1910
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Herman Ebbingaus
1850 - 1909
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Verdi's Rigoletto debuts in Venice.
1851
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On the Origin of Civilization
1855
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The Renaissance
1855
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Sigmund Freud
1856 - 1939
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Franz Boas
1858 - 1942
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Darwin's Origin of Species
1859
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Pierre Duhem
1861 - 1916
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The Civil War broke out.
1861
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Lyell's Antiquity of Man
1863
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The Turkish government gave permission to print the Koran, but only in Arabic.
1874
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Carl Jung
1875 - 1961
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In December Schliemann found the first of five shaft graves.
1876
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What is an Index?
1878
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Darwin died and was buried in Westminister Abbey.
1882
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Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
1891
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Sepulveda's classic attack on humanity of the Indians was finally printed.
1892
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The Wonderful Century
1898
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The interpretation of Dreams
1900
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Mahler's Fourth Symphony, his most popular, debuts in Munich.
1901
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Mars and It's Canals
1906
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Is Mars Habitable?
1907
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Pan Ku
32 - 92
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Electric guitars debut.
1936
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45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
1949
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Frank Sinatra wins his first Grammy Award -- Best Album for Come Dance with Me.
1959
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the Double Helix
1968
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