1668
| 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). |
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1698
Age: 30y
birth of childAnn Mothershead Virginia, USA ⇓ |
| 1698 • The Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping. |
1746
Age: 78y
| 1746 • Publication of Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "les beaux arts": "the fine arts". |