Timeline of 17th Century Science

By AryanNarayan
  • 1543

    Vesalius Publishes "De Humani Corporis Fabrica"

  • 1545

    Hortus of University of Padua Built

  • 1563

    da Orta Publishes "Colóquios Dos Simples e Drogas"

  • British East India Company Established

  • Kepler Publishes "Astronomia Nova"

  • Grotius Publishes "Mare Liberum"

  • Bacon Publishes "Novum Organum"

  • Harvey Publishes "De Motu Cordis"

  • Jesuit's Bark Arrives in Rome

  • Galileo Publishes "Two New Sciences"

  • Descartes Publishes "Discourse on the Method"

  • The Peak of the Tulip Craze

  • First Coffeehouses Open in Europe

  • von Guericke Constructs his Airpump

  • de Bils Presents "Lifelike" Preservations

  • Royal Society is Established

  • Boyle Publishes "The Sceptical Chymist"

  • Hooke Publishes "Micrographia"

  • Newton Builds the Reflecting Telescope

  • Chelsea Physic Gardens Established

  • Leeuwenhoek Discovers Sperm Cells

  • "Hortus Malabaricus" is Published

  • Newton Publishes "Principia"

  • Halley Creates the Life Table

  • Newton Publishes "Opticks"

  • Linnaeus Publishes "Systema Naturae"

  • Swammerdam's "Biblia Natura" Published

  • Bernoulli Publishes "Hydrodynamica"