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1590
| 1590 • The Neulengbach earthquake causes significant damage and some loss of life in Lower Austria and Vienna; the effects are felt as far as Bohemia and Silesia. |
1614
Aug 28
Age: 24y
birth of childPieter Quackenbosch Oestgest, Netherlands ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1614 • Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the solar system. |
1651
Age: 61y
| 1651 • Charles II is crowned King of Scots at Scone (his first crowning). |