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1543 CE: Andreas Vesalius publishes his influential work on human anatomy, Of the Fabric of the Human Body.
1597 CE: Johannes Kepler publishes his Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Cosmographical Mystery), which endorses the heliocentric model of Copernicus.
1600 CE: William Gilbert published his findings from experiments using magnets, On the Magnet.
1605 CE: Francis Bacon publishes The Advancement of Learning, the first in a series of works expounding his scientific method.
1608 CE: Galileo Galilei develops a powerful new telescope.
1620 CE: Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organum, outlining the fundamentals of his scientific method.
1623 CE: Francis Bacon publishes his De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum, which further outlines his new scientific method.
1626 CE: New Atlantis by Francis Bacon is published. It describes a utopian state where Bacon's scientific method is employed.
1643 CE - 1648 CE: An international effort by scientists develops the barometer.
1657 CE: Christiaan Huygens makes the first working example of a pendulum clock.
1660 CE: Robert Boyle publishes the New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects.
1662 CE: Robert Hooke is appointed the Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society in London.
1664 CE: Robert Boyle publishes Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours.
1665 CE - 1666 CE: Isaac Newton's 'year of wonder' when he makes many new scientific discoveries.
1666 CE - 1668 CE: Isaac Newton conducts optical experiments leading to the discovery that white light is composed of a spectrum of coloured light.
1673 CE: Marcello Malpighi publishes his 'On the Formation of the Chick in the Egg ', the first work in embryology.
1674 CE - 1677 CE: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observes single-celled organisms, baceria and sperm through a microscope.
1675 CE: The first use in English of the term “experimental method”.
1675 CE: Christiaan Huygens creates the first working example of a chronometer using balance spring.
1677 CE: Edmond Halley takes astronomical readings from an observatory he establishes on the island of St. Helena.
1679 CE: Edmond Halley compares astronomical data with Johannes Hevelius in Danzig.
1687 CE: Isaac Newton publishes his laws of motion and universal law of gravity in Principia.
1698 CE - 1700 CE: Edmond Halley makes three voyages across the Atlantic gathering data on magnetism.