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Feb 16, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei born at Pisa, Italy -
Feb 21, 1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonaroti died on February 18th 1564 in Florence, Italy after a just two weeks shy of his eighty-ninth birthday. -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in England on April 23rd. -
Jan 1, 1573
Tycho's Star
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. -
Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin proposes the use of decimals in mathmatics. -
Francois Viète
In mathematics, Francois Viète's published his Introduction to the Analytical Art. The Analytical Art is analytic geometry created by a man from Poitou. -
William Gilbert
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. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo demonstrates that a projectile follows a parabolic path. -
The telescope
The telescope is invented in the Netherlands; it employs a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece. -
Galileo Galilei's telescope
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.
