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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Scientific Revolution
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Feb 21, 1543
Andreas Vesalius Publishes On the Fabric of the Human Body
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Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
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Johannes Kepler Reveals His Third and Final Law of Planetary Motion
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Francis Bacon Publishes Novum Organum
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Galileo is Forced to Recant his Theories
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Rene Descartes Publishes Geometry and Rene Descartes Publishes His Discourse on Method
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Isaac Newton Publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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The Salem Witch Trials Take Place in Massachusetts
Indicative of the maintenance of traditional superstitions even late in the seventeenth century, 200 people are tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Over 7,000 women were executed for witchcraft in Europe between 1550 and 1700, largely in association with the various theological battles of the Reformation.