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

1610-1664:  Life Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer

1623-1644:  Pontificate of Urban VIII

1623-1662:  Life of Blaine Pascal

1623-1673:  Life of Margaret Cavendish

1627-1691:  Life of Robert Boyle

1628:William Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart

1629-1695:  Life of Christiaan Huygens

1632:  Galileo, Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World

1632-1677:  Life of Baruch Spinoza

1632-1704:  Life of John Locke

1633  Papal Inquisition of Galileo

1637:  Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

1642-1724:  Life of Isaac Newton

1647-1706:  Life of Pierre Bayle