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| 1587-1602 |
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Abulfazl’s Akbarnamah in Mughal India |
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| 1598-1629 |
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Building of palace and plaza in Isfahan, Iran |
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| 1600s |
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Growing circulation of books and ideas in China |
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| 1600s |
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Kabuki theater appears in Japan |
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| 1620 |
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Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum |
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| 1630-1650 |
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Building of Taj Mahal in Agra, India |
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| 1632 |
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Galileo Galilei’s Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World |
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| 1637 |
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René Descartes’s Discourse on Method |
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| 1661 |
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Building of Versailles begins outside Paris |
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| 1662 |
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Incorporating of British Royal Society |
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| 1687 |
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Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica |
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| 1690 |
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John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
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| 1720s |
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Tulip period in Ottoman empire |
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| 1728 |
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Movement for "native learning" begins in Japan |
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| 1735 |
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Carolus Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae |
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| 1750 |
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Comte de Buffon’s Natural History |
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| 1751-1772 |
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Denis Diderot’s Encyclopedia |
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| 1762 |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile and Social Contract |
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| 1768-1779 |
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Voyages of Captain James Cook |
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| 1775 |
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Johann Blumenbach’s De Generis Humani Natura |
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| 1776 |
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Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations |
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| 1776 |
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American Declaration of Independence |
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| 1788 |
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First British settlement in Australia |
