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17th Century
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Rafelle Marie Timog Allego
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Prehistory
Events
Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer
William Gilbert publishes his great book De Magnete describing how Earth behaves like a giant magnet. It's the beginning of the scientific study of magnetism
Galileo Galilei builds a practical telescope and makes new astronomical discoveries
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke independently develop microscopes
Galileo's pupil Evangelista Torricelli builds the first mercury barometer for measuring air pressure
Christiaan Huygens develops the pendulum clock (using Galileo's earlier discovery that a swinging pendulum can be used to keep time)
Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
