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From Gutenberg to the Internet Timeline An Annotated Chronology of the History of Information from about 30,000 B.C.E. to the present, by Jeremy M. Norman. |
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Circa 1600 |
The Japanese adopt the Chinese 1/5 abacus via Korea. In Japanese the abacus is called soroban.The 1/4 abacus will appear in Japan about 1630. |
| 1602 | The Bodleian Library at Oxford opens with a collection of 2000 books assembled by Thomas Bodley to replace the library that had been donated to the Divinity School by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester ( brother of Henry V ), which had been dispersed in the 16th century. |
1605 |
Johann Carolus, who previously earned his living by producing hand-written news sheets for wealthy subscribers, acquires a printing press and publishes the first European newspaper, Relation, in Strasbourg. The earliest extant examples are dated 1609. In that year Heinrich Julius, duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, founded Avisa Relation oder Zeitung. |
| 1607 | Galileo publishes Difesa di Galileo Galilei ... contro alle calumnie & imposture di Baldessar Capra.This booklet publishes the transcript of the trial resulting from the lawsuit that Galileo successfully brought against Baldessar Capra for copying the proportional and military compass that Galileo had invented. It is among the first, if not the very first, record of litigation over an invention, and most certainly the first litigation in the history of computing. |
| 1608 | Heironymous Hornschuch publishes at Leizpig the first printer's manual, Orthotypographia, which "while dealing mainly with the signs and symbols of correction.includes short sections on schemes of imposition and type-specimens." (P.Gaskell, G.Barber and G.Warrilow, 'An Annotated List of Printers' Manuals to 1850', Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no. 4, 1968, pp.11-31, G1.). Prior to this date no printer has published instructions any technical aspect of the printing trade--a trade which must be learned through apprenticeship. |
| 1610 | The last book issued by the Roman Medici Press is the Quzhayya Psalter, a small folio containing 260 pages, each divided into two columns, the right-hand column containing the Syriac text, the left-hand column the Arabic translation printed in a smaller Syriac typeface. At the bottom of the page, in the colophon, are clues to the story of the Psalter. It reads: "Printed in the honored monastery of Wadi Quzhayya, on Mount Lebanon, the work of master Pasquale Eli and of the humble Yusuf ibn Amima from Karm Sadde . . .1610." This is the first book printed in Arabic in the Middle East. No other books will follow from the press at Quzhayya, and almost a century will elapse before the next book is printed in Arabic in the Middle East. |
1614 |
John Napier of Scotland publishes his Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio, announcing his invention of logarithms, with the goal of increasing calculating speed and reducing drudgery. |
1617 |
Napier publishes Rabdologiae describing two calculating devices: “Napier’s bones,” and “Multiplicationis promptuarium,” or the lightning calculator. |
1621 |
The Corante is published by the printer Nathaniel Butter. First issued on September 24, 1621, It is the first private newspaper published in English. |
1623 |
Wilhelm Schickard invents the first true mechanical calculating machine, known only from drawings discovered in the twentieth century. |
1624 |
Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica, the first set of modern logarithms. |
1624-25 |
Johannes Kepler publishes Chilias Logarithmorum (1624) and Supplementum (1625), creating his logarithmic tables by a new geometrical procedure, the form thus differing from both Napier and Briggs. |
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