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Feb 19, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (d.1506) is born as is Amerigo Vespucci (d. 1512), explorers. -
Feb 14, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
Nicolas Copernicus was born. -
Feb 21, 1486
The Malleus Malificarum
The Malleus Malificarum is published as an influential guidebook to identifying witches and bringing them to punishment. -
Feb 21, 1518
The London College of Physicians
The London College of Physicians is granted a royal charter and functions both as a traditional professional guild as well as a learned society. -
Feb 19, 1545
Girolamo Cardano
In mathematics, Girolamo Cardano's (1501-1576) The Great Art contained many algebraic innovations and new methods for treating equations of the third degree. -
Feb 16, 1564
Galilieo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was born at Pisa, Italy. Galileo was a famous painter, scientist, and scuplurist. -
History of Animals
Conrad Gessner publishes a massive and highly influential work, the History of Animals. -
Thomas Harriot
Thomas Harriot proposed the sine law of refraction, which he failed to publish. -
Wonderful Principle of Logarthms
In mathematics, John Napier (1550-1617) in his Description of the Wonderful Principle of Logarithms establishes rules for logarithms and supplies useful tables. -
Rudolphine Tables
Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables, based of Tycho's data and his own laws and planetary motion, provide the most accurate astronomical tables up to that time. -
Pendulum Clock
Christiaan Huygens' pendulum clock opens the possibility of determining the equation of time directly, which would overcome difficulties associated with a problem of planetary theory, solar parallax. -
Alchemy
Sir Isaac Newton concentrated and sustained interest in alchemy. -
Emond Halley
Edmond Halley provides a mathematical equation for finding the focal lengths of lenses of all shapes. -
John Flamsteed
Publication of John Flamsteed's Historia coelestis Britannica, which contains positions for some 3000 stars, more than three times that of Tycho's catalogue. -
Short Chronology
Newton refuses to grant publication of Short Chronology but publishes it later. Newton suffers inflammation of his lungs and moves to Kensington.