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Rise of Modern Science From a. D. 1519 to 1604

Astronomy.

Physics and Mechanics. 1543.

Copernican system published. 1560. Baptiste Porta invents the camera obscura.

Chemistry.

Physical Geography and Geology. 1519. Magellan's Biology, 1530. Paracelsus, ship sails round 1542. Vesalius rechemist and al- the world. chemist, separates out gold by means of aquafortis. futes Galen; his anatomical drawings. 1548. Fallopius on anatomy. 1551. Gesner first zoological cabinet and botanical garden. 1560. Eustachius. -Eustachian tube. 1560. Porta on structure of the 1565.

Gesner on mineralogy and fossil shells. eye. 1565. Gesner's History of Animals; His classification of plants. 1575.

Tycho Brahe's observatory on Huen island; Tychonic system. 1576. Tycho in Bohemia. 1594. Kepler begins to study the planets. 1597. He joins Tycho in Bohemia. 1599. Rudolphine tables begun. 1600. 1580. Porta's engine. 1583. Galileo on the pendulum. 1589. On falling bodies.

On musical sound. 1592. On motion of heavy bodies. 1592. Stevinus on statics.

Bruno burnt 1600. Kircher inat the stake. vents the magic lantern. 1600, Gilbert makes experiments on electricity. 1580. Palissy, the potter, insists that fossil shells were 1583. Cæsalpinus once real shells. classifies plants plants by their flowers and seeds. 1603. Fabricius discovers valves in veins. 1604. Kepler on formation of images on the retina.