Timeline 1486-1736 Flashcards
1486
Malleus Maleficarum
1542
First Witchcraft Act
1543
Nicholas Copernicus “on the Revolution of Heavenly Sphere” is published
1563
Second Witchcraft Act
1584
Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft published
1597
case
The Boy of Burton case
1597 (not boy of burton)
Gresham College founded
1599
Samuel Harsnett’s A discovery of Fraudulent Practisies of John Darrel Published.
1604
Third Witchcraft Act
1605
Francis Bacon’s Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human published
1609
Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova published
1632
Galileo Galilei Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems published
1634
Pendle Swindle case
1655
Thomas Hobbes’s De Corpore published
1656
Thomas Ady’s A Candle in the Dark published