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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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1627 |
Kepler publishes Tabulae Rudolphinae, his computation of which has been greatly advanced by his use of logarithms, which he began employing in calculations in 1618. The culmination of work undertaken by Kepler at the direction of the dying Tycho Brahe in 1601, and based on Tycho’s great storehouse of observations, Kepler's tables play a dominant role in astronomy throughout the seventeenth century. |
While a medical student Gabriel Naude publishes one of the earliest works on librarianship-- Avis pour Dresser une Bibliotheque. It will be first published in English in 1651. |
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1628 |
Adriaan Vlacq, a bookseller and publisher, computes and issues the first complete set of modern logarithms. |
1630 |
William Oughtred invents the circular form of the slide rule. He publishes Circles of Proportion and the Horizontal Instrument in 1632 describing slide rules and sundials. |
| The pilgrims land at Plymouth and found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |
| 1635 | The Rev. John Norton brings to Plymouth, Massachusetts a copy of the Venice 1491 edition of St. Augustine's Opuscula. This is the earliest documented 15th century book in North America. It is preserved at the Boston Public Library. |
1636
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Harvard College is established at Cambridge, Massachusetts by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and named for its first benefactor, John Harvard, a minister who leaves a few hundred books and half his estate to the new institution. It is the first institution of higher learning in the United States. |
1639 |
Stephen Daye establishes the first printing press in North America at Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first publications are a broadside entitled The Oath of a Freeman and Peirce's Almanack for 1639. Of these no authentic copies are known. |
| 1640 | Stephen Day prints the Whole Booke of Psalmes, edited by Ricard Mather. Known as the Bay Psalm Book, it is the first book printed in North America. Of the original edition of 1700 copies, eleven copies are extant. "The first printing press to come to British America arrived in the winter of 1638/39. During 1639 an almanac and the 'Oath of a Freeman' were printed, although no genuine examples of either have been found. The ministers of the small colony were eager to produce their own version of the Psalms, one that did not sacrifice accuracy of translation to regulating of meter. Richard Mather, John Eliot, and several others made translations from the original Hebrew. Thus this first product of the American press represented a distinct break from Old England, both in production and translation." (Reese, The Printers' First Fruits. An Exhibition of American Imprints 1640-1742, from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society [1989] 1). |
| 1641 | Abolition of the Star Chamber court removes the machinery of censorship in England. This results in an outpouring of publications on topics which previously had been suppressed. |
1642 |
Blaise Pascal invents his adding machine, the Pascaline. He will publish a pamphlet on the machine in 1645. |
| 1643 June 16 | Having abolished the Star Chamber court which had provided the mechanism for censorship in England, the British government attempts to re-establish censorship through a Licensing Order passed on this date which would require the licensing of publications before printing. |
| 1644 | In response to the British Government's attempt to re-establish censorship, John Milton publishes Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicense'd Printing, to the Parliament of England, defending against the the order for licensing books. |
1645
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The artist and print-maker, Abraham Bosse, writes, illustrates and publishes the first treatise on engraving and etching techniques: Tracte des manieres de graver en taille douce sur l'airin. |
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