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1590
| 1590 • The Cortes of Castile approves a new subsidy, the "millones". |
1614
Aug 28
Age: 24y
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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 • St. Peter's Flood – First storm tide in the North Sea strikes the coast of Germany, drowning thousands. The island of Juist is split in half and the western half of Buise is probably washed away. |