Events
One of the major publications
of Renaissance natural philosophy
- Epitome of Ptolemy's AlmagestPublication of the highly influential
Corpus HermeticumGeorg Peurbach's New Theory of the PlanetsThe Malleus Malificarum (The Hammer of the Witches) is publishedGiovanni Pico della Mirandola attacks
'practical magic', especially, astrology,
as it calls into questions traditional
notions of human free willThe London College of Physicians is
granted a royal charter and functions
both as a traditional professional guild
as well as a learned societyFerdinand Magellan famously completes
the first circumnavigation of the globe.Girolamo Fracastoro provides one of the
first descriptions of a new disease titled,
Syphilis, or the French Disease.1530- 1536 Publication of Portraits of Living
Plants, by Otto Brunfels's, a botanical work that
included illustrations from living plantsJuan Luis Vives in his On the Disciplines
argues for the reform of education and
a more receptive approach to skills
traditionally associated with the craft
and trade traditions.Peter Apian and Fracastoro observe
that the tail of the comet pointed away
from the sunIn mathematics, Girolamo Cardano's, The Great Art contained many algebraic innovations and new methods for treating equations of the third degreeNewton's Observations Upon the Prophecies is publishedNewton publishes second English edition of OpticksThe comet that now bears Edmond Halley's
name is determined by him to have an
elongated elliptical orbit, and therefore argued
it should submit to Newtonian principles.Isaac Newton publishes the first edition of his
Opticks, including a series of speculations
about nature and natural philosophyGottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz organizes and establishes the Berlin Academy of Science.
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