1600 to 1650 Timeline Outline

The Soroban
(Circa 1600)

The First European-Style World Map in Chinese and the First Chinese Map to Show the Americas
(1602)

The First "Major" History of Libraries
(1602)

The First World Map Showing Isogonic Lines
(1602 – 1604)

Probably the First "Public" Library in England
(November 8, 1602)

The First Copying Device?
(1603 – 1605)

Foundation of the Accademia dei Lincei, the First Scientific Society
(August 17, 1603)

The First European Newspaper
(1605)

The First "Computer Manual"
(1606)

The First Bibliography Published in the New World
(1606)

Among the First Records of Litigation over an Invention
(1607)

The First Editor's and Printer's Manual
(1608)

The First Prepaid Letter Sheets
(1608)

Invention of the Telescope
(1608)

Erasable Paper from 1609
(1609)

The First Publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets
(May 20, 1609)

The Second Public Library in Europe
(December 8, 1609)

The First Book Printed in the Arab World
(1610)

News Services Persist in Distributing News by Manuscript
(Circa 1610)

Possibly the Earliest Extant Examples of Wall-Shelving
(1610 – 1612)

Leiden University Library in 1610
(1610)

Images of Revolutionary Discoveries Concerning the Universe
(March 1610)

The Earliest European Manual on Bookbinding
(1612)

Optics and Color Theory, Illustrated by Peter Paul Rubens
(1613)

The Invention of Logarithms
(1614)

Napier's Bones & the Lightning Calculator
(1617)

The First History of Writing
(1617)

The First Book about Printing Inks
(1619)

Probably the Earliest Records of the Charges for Trade Bindings in England
(1619)

The Pilgrims Land at Plymouth in New England
(1620)

Depiction of Record Keeping by Pieter Breughel the Younger
(1620 – 1640)

The First Private Newspaper Published in English
(1621)

Literary and Medical Classic on One of the Most Common Human Ailments
(1621)

Maximilian Donates the Bibliotheca Palatina to the Vatican
(1622)

Forerunner of the English Newspaper
(May 23, 1622)

Plant Classification Based upon General Morphology
(1623)

The First Regularly Printed English Newspaper
(1624)

Kepler Creates Logarithms by a New Procedure
(1624 – 1625)

At Attempt to Record All Human Knowledge in Visual Form
(Circa 1625 – 1665)

One of the Earliest Works on Librarianship
(1627)

The First Color-Printed Medical Illustrations
(1627)

The First Complete Set of Modern Logarithms
(1628)

Discovery and Experimental Proof of the Circulation of the Blood
(1628)

Descartes Discusses the Idea of an Artificial Language
(1629)

The First Book to Contain Images of Organisms Viewed through the Microscope
(1630)

The First Weekly Magazine in France
(May 30, 1631)

The Circular Form of Slide Rule
(1632)

The First Separate Publication on Archives
(1632)

Some of the Earliest Printed Examples of Concrete or Shaped Poetry
(1633)

Precursor of the Royal Society
(August 23, 1633 – June 10, 1641)

Introduction of Book Burning by the Hangman
(1634)

The Earliest Documented 15th Century Book in North America
(1635)

The First Institution of Higher Learning in the U.S.
(1636)

Fermat's Last Theorem
(1637)

"Je pense, donc je suis."
(1637)

A Decree of the Star Chamber Concerning Printing July 11, 1637
(July 11, 1637)

Establishment of the First Printing Press in North America: No Copies of the First Two Imprints Exist
(1639)

Coining the Term Incunabula
(1639)

The First Book Printed in North America
(1640)

Sixty Printed Books and Three Newsbooks Ordered to be Burned
(1640 – 1660)

Abolition of the Star Chamber Stimulates Publishing
(1641)

The First Study of Runestones and Runic Inscriptions
(1641)

The Pascaline
(1642)

Mezzotint Invented
(1642)

The First Book Printed on Malta
(1643)

The British Government Attempts to Re-Establish Censorship
(June 16, 1643)

"For Books are Not Absolutely Dead Things; but Doe Contain a Potencie of Life . . . ."
(1644)

The Earliest Known Graph of Statistical Data
(1644)

The First Treatise on Engraving and Etching
(1645)

The First Extensive Moon Atlas
(1647)