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The writings called The Hammer of the Witches is published as an influential guidebook to identifying witches and bringing them to punishment.
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Ferdinand Magellan completes the first trip completely around the world.
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This book (On the Fabric of the Human Body) is published by Andreas Vesalius. It offered illustrations and new information on the anatomy of the human body based on observations of fresh human dissections.
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Copernicus' heliocentric theory appears in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)
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Galileo Galilei is born at Pisa, Italy
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Europe witnessed a dramatic supernova that blazed for 4 months as brightly as -4 magnitude.
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Pope Gregory XIII suggested reform of the Julian calendar, thus leading much of Catholic Europe away from the Julian (Old Style) calendar to the Gregorian (New Style).
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Galileo Galilei demonstrates that a projectile follows a parabolic path.
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The first telescope is constructed by Galileo. The magnifications ranged from 3x to 30x
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Isaa Newton details his three important laws in his writing titled Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. The properties deal with force, mass, accelaration, and velocity.