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Published first book
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The first Cambridge Bible is printed by John Legate.
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The Cambridge folio edition of the King James Bible is printed by Thomas and John Buck.
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The Temple by George Herbert (1593 – 1633) is published containing his pattern poem ‘Easter Wings’ in which the words and lines are arranged on the page to create a visual image of the poem’s subject.
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Lycidas is published by John Milton (1608 –1674) as a tribute to Edward King, a fellow-student at Christ’s College and an aspiring poet, who drowned when his ship sank in 1637.
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The second edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) is published by the Press.
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John Baskerville produces the beautiful folio bible.