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The Reformation was a European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of contemporary Christianity
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The seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
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The 16th century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered to be one of the church's most important councils.
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Gabriele Falloppio announces his discovery of the fallopian tubes in his Anatomical Observations.
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Galileo was an astronomer that wanted to be able to see far distances, so he invented the telescope
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A famous 'controversy on comets' erupted in this year involving Galileo and prominent Jesuit astronomers.
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The first observation of a transit of Venus across the Sun, a rare phenomenon used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for determining the distance of the earth from the Sun, is made by the brilliant but short-lived Jeremiah Horrocks at Toxteth Park near Liverpool. Few others offered observations of this telling event, as sky conditions were not favorable on the continent, certainly not in France.
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In his first major publication, Isaac Newton established by means of experiment that white light was not one and pure, but rather that white light was mixed and heterogeneous: white light, against tradition, was in fact composed of a spectrum of colors and each color is the result of a measurable angle of bending. Color as a quality was, according to tradition, a quantifiable degree of refrangibility
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observes of spermatozoa by means of the microscope, arguing they are not forms of disease but a source of reproductive material.
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Publication of the first textbook on the calculus by the Marquis de L'Hôpital