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

1623-1662:  Life of Blaine Pascal

1623-1673:  Life of Margaret Cavendish

1627-1691:  Life of Robert Boyle

1629-1695:  Life of Christiaan Huygens

1632-1677:  Life of Baruch Spinoza

1632-1704:  Life of John Locke

1642-1724:  Life of Isaac Newton

1647-1706:  Life of Pierre Bayle

1647-1717:  Life of Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist

1651:  Hobbes, Leviathan

1657:  Christiaan Huygens patents the pendulum clock

1660:  Charles I of England issues charter to Royal Society

1660:  Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical

1666:  Jean-Baptiste Colbert establishes the Academie Royale des Sciences

1666:  The Great London Fire