1533-1592:  Life of Michel de Montaigne

1546-1601:  Life of Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer

1561-1626:  Life of Francis Bacon

1564-1642:  Life of Johannes Kepler, German astronomer

1576:  Construction of Tycho Brahe's Observatory

1578-1657:  Life of William Harvey

1582:  Gregorian calendar issued, based on Copernicus's calculations

1588-1679:  Life of Thomas Hobbes

1591:  Galileo's law of falling bodies