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| c. 1520 |
| | | Europe's new printing presses make possible the first pamphlet war, spreading instant arguments for and against the Reformation | |
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| 1530 |
| | | German botanist Otto Brunfels publishes Living images of plants, the first serious work of natural history with printed illustrations | |
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| 1560 |
| | | A book to teach good handwriting is published by Gianfrancesco Cresci, with examples engraved on copper plates | |
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| 1569 |
| | | Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator publishes a map of the world, using the projection now known by his name | |
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| 1595 |
| | | A year after Mercator's death, his son publishes a bound collection of his maps with the title Atlas, or Cosmographic Meditations | |
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| 1640 |
| | | The first book published in England's American colonies is Bay Psalm Book, a revised translation of the psalms | |
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| 1649 |
| | | Rembrandt creates an etching so desirable that it becomes known as the Hundred Guilder Print | |
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| c. 1650 |
| | | The pleasure districts of Edo and Kyoto provide the delights of ukiyo-e, the 'floating world' | |
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| c. 1658 |
| | | Prince Rupert of the Rhine pioneers mezzotint, the first half-tone technique in printing | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The French scientist Denis Papin, while professor of mathematics at Marburg, develops the first steam engine to use a piston | |
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