17th century
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Year in Review 17th Century
(
16th century
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17th century
-
18th century
)
Decades
:
1600s
1610s
1620s
1630s
1640s
1650s
?
1660s
1670s
?
1680s
1690s
Events:
Union of the Crowns of
Scotland
and
England
Scottish
and
English
Protestants
sent to colonize
Ireland
, as reaction to
Catholicism
there.
The
Thirty Years War
in
Europe
(1618-1648).
Development in military sciences:
Cannon
and
gunpowder
technology refined.
The
English Civil Wars
(1642-1651).
Calculus
is invented and used to formulate
classical mechanics
.
Significant persons:
William Shakespeare
, author and poet
Isaac Newton
, physicist and mathematician
Gottfried Leibniz
, philosopher and mathematician
Galileo Galilei
, scientist
René Descartes
, philosopher and mathematician
Blaise Pascal
, theologian and mathematician
Baruch Spinoza
, philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
, philosopher
Oliver Cromwell
, Lord Protector of England