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1614
| 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. |
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1648
Age: 34y
birth of childMary Willey 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1648 • Arabs besiege Portuguese in Muscat. |
1685
Age: 71y
| 1685 • The Bloody Assizes begin in Winchester; over 1000 of Monmouth's rebels tried and condemned to death or transportation. |