Yale and Princeton are two colleges that were founded in the 17th century
YALE IN 1701 AND PRINCETON 1746.
Two mathematical innovations in the 17th Century were the slide rule and algorithms.
16th and 17th century
The Ballad and The Sonnet
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Rene Descates discovered it in the 17th century
The century is calculated by dropping the last two digits and adding 1 to what's left. 1665 -> 1665 -> 16 -> +1 -> 17th Century
In the 17th century, the British began to colonize North America and South America. It would not be until the 19th century that the British would acquire large land-holdings in Africa and Asia.
One invention in the 17th century that significantly altered the way people saw their world was the microscope. The other invention was the telescope.
This question has two answers. Some people say that 20th Century Fox was founded in 1915. But there are other people who say that it was founded in 1935.
John Wallis
John Wallis
Considering that there were no democracies for the entire 17th century and all but the last two decades of the 18th century, but there were absolutist states during those periods, absolutism wins by default.