1621 (MDCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1621st year...
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Events from the year 1621 in literature. January 27 – Sir Francis Bacon is created Viscount St Alban. February 3 – John Chamberlain writes to Sir Dudley...
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Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac (category Writers from Bourg-en-Bresse)
and a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the Arithmetica of Diophantus (1621). It was this very translation in which Fermat wrote his famous margin note...
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The Astronomer (Vermeer) (category Science and technology in the Dutch Republic)
celestial globe (version by Jodocus Hondius) and the book on the table, the 1621 edition of Adriaan Metius's Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae. Symbolically...
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served as the royal cosmographer to Philip III of Spain (1598 -1621) and Philip IV (1621-1665). In the years 1622 to 1630 he worked on mapping the coasts...
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The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events. Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables are published. January – The Dutch ship...
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Cosimo II de' Medici (category 1621 deaths)
Cosimo II de' Medici (12 May 1590 – 28 February 1621) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until his death. He was the elder son of Ferdinando I de' Medici...
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Marine navigation (redirect from Nautical science)
battle of Haarlemmermeer, 1573; painting by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, ca. 1621. Francis Drake's fleet in front of Santo Domingo in 1585. Navigation of the...
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The year 1615 in science and technology involved some significant events. Manuel Dias (Yang MaNuo), a Portuguese Jesuit missionary introduces for the...
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Gothenburg (category Populated places established in 1621)
metropolitan area. King Gustavus Adolphus founded Gothenburg by royal charter in 1621 as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony. In addition to the...
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