1600 Population of the world is about 545 million people; Shakespeare's ^Hamlet^ 1st performed

1609 Small mills in Bay of Fundy powered by harnessed tides

1610 Bagels! on a list that pregnant women get a larger ration of bagels; 1611 King James translation of the Bible

1615 William Baffin gets w/in 800 mi. of North Pole (closest till 19th C.); 1616 Pocahontas arrives in London; Many New England Natives die of smallpox (so it begins...)

1620 Pilgrams land at Plymounth Rock; an early reference to the Merry-Go-Round, popular w/in a century

Science

1602 T. BRAHE *Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata* (pub. post-hum)-positions of 777 stars; 1603 J. BAYER *Uranometria*-method for locating, naming stars -still in use; The 'Aceademia de Lincei' (Academy of Lynceus) founded Rome

1605 FRANCIS BACON *Advancement of Learning* (not magic, develop scientific method); 1608 Hans Lippershey invents telescope; 1609 Galileo re-invents telescope; Lippershey (re)invents compound microscope

1610 Galileo- Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, stars in Milky Way & phases of Venus (pub, he's famous); 1611 N. de Peiresc discovers Orion Nebula; 1612 S. Marius 1st astronomer to mention Andromeda Galaxy

1616 R. Catholic Church tells Galileo to back off the Copernican Doctrine; they place Copernicus' 'De Revolutionibus' on Church's Prohibited list; 1617 Napier's Rods (Bones); 1619 Kepler *Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae* defends Copernicus' work

1620 Cornelus Drebbel builds a workable submarine; 1621 William Oughtred invents the slide rule; 1623 Wilhelm Schickardt builds 1st calculating machine, adds, subtracts, with know-how, multiplies/divides

1619 Rene Descartes' famous dream 'work out the unity of the sciences on a purely rational basis'

1620 F. BACON *Novum Organum* recommends induction, experimentation as basis of scientific method

1623 TOMMASO CAMPANELLA *Civitas Solis* (The City of the Sun)