1546-1601:  Life of Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer

1561-1626:  Life of Francis Bacon

1564-1642:  Life of Johannes Kepler, German astronomer

1578-1657:  Life of William Harvey

1588-1679:  Life of Thomas Hobbes

1596-1650:  Life of Rene Descartes

1603:  Academia dei Lincei founded in Rome

1609::  Johannes Kepler's 3rd law of motion

1610:  Galileo, The Starry Messenger

1610-1664:  Life Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer

1620:  Francis Bacon, Novum Organum

1623-1644:  Pontificate of Urban VIII

1623-1662:  Life of Blaine Pascal