Part 16

1572. Massacre of St. Bartholomew.

1576. L'Obel's Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia and Adversaria.

1577-1580. Drake's circumnavigation.

1583. Cesalpini's De Plantis.

1588. The Invincible Armada.

1596-1650. Descartes.

1600. Olivier de Serres' Théâtre d'Agriculture.

1601. Clusius' Rariorum plantarum Historia.

1605. Clusius' Exoticorum libri decem.

1610. Galileo'smicroscope invented about this time.

1614. Napier's Logarithms.

1618-1648. Thirty Years' War.

1620. Voyage of Mayflower. Bacon's Novum Organum.

1621. Aselli re-discovers the lacteals.

1623. C. Bauhin's Pinax Theatri Botanici.

1626. Jardin des Plantes founded.

1628. Harvey's De motu cordis et sanguinis published, the lectures had been delivered in 1614.

1635. French Academy founded.

1638. First authenticated cure of fever by chincona bark (in Peru).

1642. New Zealand and Van Dieman's Land discovered by Tasman.

1642-1727. Newton.

1643. Barometer invented by Torricelli.

1650? Air-pump invented by Otto von Guericke. Thoracic duct discovered by Pecquet.

1653. Lymphatic vessels discovered by Rudbeck.

1660. Royal Society founded; incorporated 1662. Boyle's Spring of Air and its Effects. Ray's Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium.

1661. Boyle's Sceptical Chemist. Passage of blood through capillaries observed by Malpighi.

1665. Hooke's Micrographia.

1666. Académie des Sciences founded. Composition of white light discovered by Newton.