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'''1660'''. Otto Von Guericke builds the first static electricity generator. | '''1660'''. Otto Von Guericke builds the first static electricity generator. | ||
'''1662'''. The work of Rene Descartes, French Philosopher, is published (after his death) and explains human movement in terms of the complex mechanical interaction of threads, pores, passages and 'animal spirits'. He had worked on his ideas in the 1630s but had abandoned publication because of the persecution of other radical thinkers such as Galileo. William Harvey had developed similar ideas but they were never published. <cite>Descartes</cite> | |||
==1850-1900== | ==1850-1900== | ||