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1543 CE: Andreas Vesalius publishes his influential work on human anatomy, Of the Fabric of the Human Body.
1564 CE - 1641 CE: Life of the scientist Galileo Galilei.
1572 CE: Tycho Brahe first observes the new star or supernova in the Cassiopeia constellation.
1573 CE: Tycho Brahe publishes his research on the 1572 supernova in his De Nova Stella (1573).
1588 CE: The Danish astonomer Tycho Brahe publishes his Tychonic model of the comsos in his book Of More Recent Phenomena of the Ethereal World.
1597 CE: Johannes Kepler publishes his Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Cosmographical Mystery), which endorses the heliocentric model of Copernicus.
1600 CE: William Gilbert published his findings from experiments using magnets, On the Magnet.
1604 CE: Johannes Kepler presents his theory of light being focused by the lens onto the retina in his Supplement to Witelo.
1605 CE: Francis Bacon publishes The Advancement of Learning, the first in a series of works expounding his scientific method.
1608 CE: Galileo Galilei develops a powerful new telescope.
1609 CE: Johannes Kepler publishes his Astronomia Nova (The New Astronomy).
1610 CE: Galileo publishes his Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger).
1611 CE: Johannes Kepler writes the treatise Dioptrics on the best optics for an astronomical telescope.
1619 CE: Johanees Kepler publishes his De Harmonices Mundi (Harmonies of the World).
1620 CE: Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organum, outlining the fundamentals of his scientific method.
1623 CE: Francis Bacon publishes his De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum, which further outlines his new scientific method.
1623 CE - 1662 CE: Life of the scientist, mathematician, and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
1626 CE: New Atlantis by Francis Bacon is published. It describes a utopian state where Bacon's scientific method is employed.
1638 CE: Galileo's Discourse on Two New Sciences is published.
1641 CE: Johannes Hevelius builds his Stellaeburg
observatory in Danzig, Poland.
1642 CE: Blaise Pascal invents a calculating machine.
1643 CE - 1648 CE: An international effort by scientists develops the barometer.
1647 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Selenographia containing his map of the Moon is published.
1648 CE: Blaise Pascal conducts pratical tests of a barometer at varying altitudes.
1654 CE: Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat work on a theory of probability.
1657 CE: Christiaan Huygens makes the first working example of a pendulum clock.
1658 CE: Christiaan Huygens presents his disocvery of Saturn's rings and the moon of Titan.
1659 CE: Robert Hooke develops a new type of air pump.
1660 CE: Robert Boyle publishes the New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects.
1661 CE: Marcello Malpighi publishes 'On the Lungs', in which he reveals his discovery of capillaries in the human circulatory system.
1664 CE: Robert Boyle publishes Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours.
1665 CE - 1666 CE: Isaac Newton's 'year of wonder' when he makes many new scientific discoveries.
1665 CE: Robert Hooke's Micrographia presents flora and fauna as seen under maginfication using a microscope.
1666 CE - 1668 CE: Isaac Newton conducts optical experiments leading to the discovery that white light is composed of a spectrum of coloured light.
1668 CE: Isaac Newton designs and builds a reflective telescope, the first of its kind, for the Royal Society in England.
1673 CE: Marcello Malpighi publishes his 'On the Formation of the Chick in the Egg ', the first work in embryology.
1674 CE - 1677 CE: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observes single-celled organisms, baceria and sperm through a microscope.
1675 CE: The first use in English of the term “experimental method”.
1675 CE: Christiaan Huygens creates the first working example of a chronometer using balance spring.
1677 CE: Edmond Halley takes astronomical readings from an observatory he establishes on the island of St. Helena.
1679 CE: Edmond Halley compares astronomical data with Johannes Hevelius in Danzig.
1686 CE: Chrsitiaan Huygens builds an aerial telescope.
1687 CE: Isaac Newton publishes his laws of motion and universal law of gravity in Principia.
1690 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Prodromus Astronomiae, which contains his star map, is published.
1698 CE - 1700 CE: Edmond Halley makes three voyages across the Atlantic gathering data on magnetism.
1700 CE: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is appointed the first president of the Berlin Academy of Science.
1704 CE: Isaac Newton publishes his discoveries on light in his Optics.
1705 CE: Edmond Halley predicts in Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets the reutrn of the comet that will be named after him.