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1610. Galileo's microscope invented about this time. 



1614. Napier's Logarithms. 

 1618-1648. Thirty Years' War. 



1620. Voyage of Mayflower. Bacon's Novum Organum. 



1621. Aselli re-discovers the lacteals. 

 1623. C. Bauhin's Pinax Theatri Botanici. 

 1626. Jardin des Plantes founded. 



1628. Harvey's De motu cordis et sanguinis published 



the lectures had been delivered in 1614. 



1635. French Academy founded. 



1638. First authenticated cure of fever by chincona 



bark (in Peru). 



1642. New Zealand and Van Dieman's Land dis- 



covered by Tasman. 

 1642-1727. Newton. 



1643. Barometer invented by Torricelli. 



1650 ? Air-pump invented by Otto von Guericke. 



Thoracic duct discovered by Pecquet. 

 1653. Lymphatic vessels discovered by Rudbeck. 



1660. Royal Society founded ; incorporated 1662. 



Boyle's Spring of Air and its Effects. Ray's 

 Catalogue Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam 

 nascentium. 



1661. Boyle's Sceptical Chemist. Passage of blood 



through capillaries observed by Malpighi. 



1665. Hooke's Micrographia. 



1666. Academic des Sciences founded. Composition 



of white light discovered by Newton. 



1668. Redi on the Generation of Insects. 



1669. Swammerdam's Historia Insectorum Generalis. 



Malpighi 's De Bombyce. 

 1671-1677. Grew's Anatomy of Plants ; collected in one 



volume, 1682. 

 1672-1679. Malpighi's Anatome Plantarum ; collected in his 



Opera Omnia, 1686. 

 1673. Malpighi's De formatione pulli in ovo. Leeu- 



wenhoek's first paper published by the Royal 



Society. 



