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Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus
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Circumnavigation of the globe (navigation of the World) is completed by Ferdinad Magellan. Included an expedition with Juan Sebastion Elcano concluding in 1522
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Piece of work that described is most famous work, the heliocentric theory. It was made up of six different books. Book one summarized his idea of cosmology, book two discusses astrology and lists the stars, book three discusses the movements of the sun, book four is similar to book three but instead uses the moon. Books five and six describe all of the new system and how everything calculates together.
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Gresham college founded by Sir Thomas Gresham of London; it was founded to provide lectures. It was the main gathering place for the Royal Society of London.
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Johannes Kepler's first two laws of Planetary motion were published in 1609 and the third one was long awaited and relased in 1618. The third law was "The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit." This law served significance because it was the last law leading to the Academic Rejection of the Aristotleian System.
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Théophraste Renaudot, a french physician, founds the Bureau d'Adresse, which was a clearing house for public services. It offered conferences and debates each week over different controversial topics.
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Galileo is supected to have commited heresy for teaching Copernicanism hypothesis. He was ordered house arrest for life, and all of his business was monitored, though he ended up translating it to Latin.
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A significantly more descriptive illustration and description of the surface of the moon is provided by Johannes Hevelius in his publication of Selenographia.
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the Accademia del Cimento is founded (The Academy of Experiments) in Florence by students of Galileo, Price Leopold of Tuscany and his brother. With half a dozen participants in the first decade, it thrived.
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The World by René Descartes' is finally published 14 years after his death, which presented a theory about light. He comes up with a theory that claims there is different body of light as light that we see.
