17th Century
- 1609 – Johannes Kepler: first two laws of planetary motion
- 1610 – Galileo Galilei: Sidereus Nuncius: telescopic observations
- 1614 – John Napier: use of logarithms for calculation
- 1628 – William Harvey: Blood circulation
- 1635 - Robert Hooke: Discovers the Cell
- 1643 – Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
- 1662 – Robert Boyle: Boyle's law of ideal gas
- 1665 – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society first peer reviewed scientific journal published.
- 1668 – Francesco Redi: disproved idea of spontaneous generation
- 1669 – Nicholas Steno: Proposes that fossils are organic remains embedded in layers of sediment, basis of stratigraphy
- 1669 – Jan Swammerdam: Species breed true
- 1675 – Leibniz, Newton: Infinitesimal calculus
- 1675 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek: Observes Microorganisms by Microscope
- 1676 – Ole Rømer: first measurement of the speed of light
- 1687 – Newton: Laws of motion, law of universal gravitation, basis for classical physics
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