1543 Publication of Copernicus´On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Publication of Vesalius´The Structure of the Human Body
First printing of the work of Archimedes
1582 Pope Gregory XIII reforms the calender
1609 Publication of Kepler´s first two laws of planetary motion
1610 Publication of Galileo´s Starry Messenger
1916 Publication of Kepler´s third law of planetary motion
1627 Publication of Bacon´s New Atlantis
1628 Publication of Harvey´s On the Motion of the Heart
1632 Publication ofGalileo´s Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems
1633 Condemnation of Galileo by the Inquisition
1637 Publication of Descarte´Discourse of Method
1639 Pascal´s theorem concerning conic section
1660 Founding of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
1666 Founding of the French Royal Academy of Sciences
1687 Publication of Newton´s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy