17c
1600-1800, Western Europe and harpsichords +
1600s, Chen and tai chi +
1605, Carolus and newspaper +
1608, Lippershey and the telescope +
1610, Jews in Poland and bagel +
1614, Napier and logarithms +
1621, Harriot and the greater-than sign +
1621, Harriot and the less-than sign +
1621, Oughtred and the slide rule +
1621, Pilgrims and Thanksgiving Day in the New World, the +
1621-1675, Willis and the circle of Willis +
1625, Van Helmont and carbon dioxide +
c. 1630, Pell and the division sign +
1631, Oughtred and the multiplication sign +
1634-1637, Netherlands and the tulip mania -
1637, Descartes and Cartesian coordinate system +
1637, Descartes and "I think, therefore I am" +
1637, Descartes and mind-body dualism +
1637, Descartes, and the knowns and the unknowns +
1643, Mynors and Christmas Island, Christmas Day +
1644, Torricelli and the barometer +
c. 1646, King Louis XIV and necktie +
1650, Guericke and the air pump +
1652, Bartholin, Rudbeck, and the lymphatic system +
1654, Pascal and Pascal's triangle +
1655, Wallis and the infinity symbol +
1657, Huygens and the pendulum clock +
1658, Scobell and index +
1661, Thevenot and the spirit level +
c. 1665, I. Newton, Leibniz, and calculus +
1668, I. Newton and the reflecting telescope +
1672, I. Newton and the prism +
1679, Papin and the pressure cooker +
c. 1681, Le Gendre and laissez-faire +
1682, Germany and Easter Bunnies +
1682, Halley and Halley's comet +
1687, I. Newton and the laws of motion and gravity +
1698, Savery and the steam pump +
1698, Winstanley and the lighthouse +