Science & Technology
The History of Science and Technology: A Browser's Guide to the Great Discoveries, Inventions, and the People Who Made Them from the Dawn of Time to Today, edited by Bryan Bunch and Alexander Hellemans, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
The history of the world through its inventions and discoveries, year by year, from prehistory to the 21st century. Categories include anthropology, archaeology, food, medicine, communication, transportation and more.
On this page: Year 1616 to Year 1663.