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Galileo Galilei born at Pisa, Italy
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Michelangelo Buonaroti died on February 18th 1564 in Florence, Italy after a just two weeks shy of his eighty-ninth birthday.
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William Shakespeare was born in England on April 23rd.
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The 'Tycho's Star' or the 'Star of 1572' witnessed a dramatic supernova. The star blazed for 18 months as brightly as -4 magnitude. Its most important part was that the New Star was clearly located beyond the sphere of the Moon. If this were so, it would undermine the Scholastic belief, adapted from Aristotle, that the heavens were immutable.
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Simon Stevin proposes the use of decimals in mathmatics.
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In mathematics, Francois Viète's published his Introduction to the Analytical Art. The Analytical Art is analytic geometry created by a man from Poitou.
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The Englishman, William Gilbert provided a hyper-empirical study of magnets, magnetism, and electricity with speculations about cosmology. He collected dozen of diamonds to magnetize, rub magnets with garlic, and otherwise to the English tradition to extreme lengths. It is a pioneering classic in 'empirical' method.
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Galileo demonstrates that a projectile follows a parabolic path.
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The telescope is invented in the Netherlands; it employs a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece.
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Galileo Galilei constructs his first telescope and turns it toward the heavens; his instruments begin at magnifications of approximately 3X and 10X, the most powerful achieving a magnification of 30X.
