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  2. Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of ...

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    Opening from the Royal Society's copy of the 1664 1st book edition. 1662 Sylva paper was presented to the Royal Society on 16 February 1662.; 1664 Sylva First Edition book printed by publisher John Martyn for the Royal Society, and the first book published after the granting of their Royal Charter as publishers in 1662.

  3. Category:1600s books - Wikipedia

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  4. History of sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism.

  5. History of books - Wikipedia

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    In this era, the kitab-khana ("book house") was a term serving three definitions – first, it was a public library for the storing and preservation of the books; secondly, it also referred to an individual's own private collection of books; and thirdly to a workshop where books were made with calligraphers, bookbinders and papermakers worked ...

  6. 16th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    ("A Summary of the Famous Writers of Great Britain, that is, of England, Wales and Scotland"; 1548–9) 1549 Johannes Aal – Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist) The Complaynt of Scotland; 1550 Martin Bucer – De regno Christi; The Facetious Nights of Straparola published in Italian, the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales; 1552

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    A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day). 1664. La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine; 1665. Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine; Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous) Saptapaykar – Alaol (in Bengali) 1666

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  9. Scientific Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Society had its origins in Gresham College in the City of London, and was the first scientific society in the world. The first moves towards the institutionalization of scientific investigation and dissemination took the form of the establishment of societies, where new discoveries were aired, discussed, and published.