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1614
Aug 28
| 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. |
1640
Age: 25y
marriageMaritje Ariens 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1640 • The first known European coffee house opens in Venice. |
1646
Age: 31y
birth of childMaritje Pieterse Quackenbosch 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1646 • Massachusetts enacts the death penalty for having a rebellious child. |
1653
Age: 38y
| 1653 • Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile. |
1686
Jan 4
Age: 71y
| 1686 • In Greece, Ottoman-occupied Morea (i.e., the Peloponnese) falls to the Venetians. |