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1580
| 1580 • Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year. |
1605
Age: 25y
birth of childThomas Shelton England ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1605 • Pretender Dmitriy is officially crowned Tsar Dimitriy Ioannovich of Russia in Moscow by Patriarch Ignatius. |
1668
May 20
Age: 88y
| 1668 • Isaac Newton builds the first reflecting telescope[http://books.google.com/books?id=32IDpTdthm4C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=newton+reflecting+telescope++1668+letter+1669&source=bl&ots=PKABaGwPaN&sig=rPS8w23_nAp3kH5YMYGZ7JHhOaI&hl=en&ei=0QC1Svf7AsWb8Aa3nqGTDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=newton%20reflecting%20telescope%20%201668%20letter%201669&f=false Isaac Newton: adventurer in thought, by Alfred Rupert Hall, page 67] (Newton's reflector). |