Comparison of the antiquated view and the outcome of Galileo’s experiment
In the year 1602, the Dutch East India Company is established with the intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese (Mar 20), the alliance of Persia and Spain declare war on the Ottoman Empire, the Portuguese are expelled from Bahrain, Galileo begins his study of falling bodies around this time - and all these fine people were born:
1602-0102 Rodrigo Ponce de León* Duke of Arcos/Viceroy of Valencia and of Naples - Spanish Empire (1658/56)
1602-0118 Robert Stuart* nobleman/the fifth child of James VI of Scotland - Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland (1602/infant)
1602-0124 Mildmay Fane* nobleman/ politician/writer - Mereworth, Kent, England (1666/64)
1602-0131 Adam Billaut* carpenter/poet/singer - Nevers, Kingdom of France (1662/60)
1602-0202 Jeanne des Anges* Ursuline nun/central figure in the witch trial of the priest Urbain Grandier - Cozes, Kingdom of France (1665/62)
1602-0214 Francesco Cavalli* Italian composer - Crema, Lombardy (1676/73)
1602-0218 Per Brahe the Younger* soldier/statesman/active in Finland – Rydboholm Castle, Uppland, Sweden (1680/78)
1602-0218 Pieter Meulener* Flemish painter - Antwerp (1654/52)
1602-0304 Kanō Tan’yū* 狩野 探幽 painter - Japan (1674/72)
1602-0318 Jacques de Billy* Jesuit mathematician - Compiègne, Kingdom of France(1679/76)
1602-0324 Edward Leigh* writer/ politician - Shawell Hall, Leicestershire, England (1671/69)
1602-0329 John Arrowsmith* theologian/scholar - Gateshead, England (1659/56)
1602-0329 John Lightfoot* churchman/ rabbinical scholar - Stoke-on-Trent, England (1675/73)
1602-0402 Mary of Jesus of Ágreda* Franciscan abbess/spiritual writer - Ágreda, Soria, Spanish Empire (1665/63)
1602-0412 Daniel Knudsen Bildt* Dano-Norwegian estate owner/military officer/ancestor of Carl Bildt - Bohuslen, Denmark-Norway (1651/49)
1602-0428 Tokugawa Yorinobu* 徳川 頼宣 daimyō of the early Edo period/the 10th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu - Japan (1671/68)
1602-0501 William Lilly* astrologer – Diseworth, Leicestershire, England (1681/79)
1602-0510 Samuel Newman* clergyman in colonial Massachusetts/to America at age 34 - Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (1663/61)
1602-0526 Philippe de Champaigne* French painter - Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Southern Netherlands (1674/72)
1602-0602 Rudolf Christian* Count of East Frisia - Hage (1628/25)
1602-0708 François Perrochel* cleric/bishop of Boulogne - Paris, Kingdom of France (1682/79)
1602-0714 Cardinal Jules Mazarin* (b Giulio Mazzarino) cardinal/ diplomat/politician – Pescina, Kingdom of Naples (1661/58)
1602-0810 Gilles de Roberval* (b Personne/Personier) mathematician - Roberval, Kingdom of France (1675/73)
1602-0831 Amalia of Solms-Braunfels* Princess consort of Orange/political advisor - Braunfels Castle, Hesse (1675/73)
1602-0901 Peregrine Hoby* landowner/ politician/MP - England (1679/76)
1602-0929 Algernon Percy* nobleman/MP - Essex House, London, England (1668/66)
1602-1003 Arnold Braemes* merchant/politician - Dover, England (1681/79)
1602-1009 Robert Caesar* lawyer/ politician - England (1637/35)
1602-1012 William Chillingworth* clergyman - Oxford, England (1644/41)
1602-1106 William Morice* theologian/ stateman - Werrington, Devon, England (1676/74)
1602-1120 Otto von Guericke* German scientist/inventor/politician - Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire (1686/83)
1602-1127 Chiara Margarita Cozzolani* Benedictine nun/singer/composer - Milan, Duchy of Milan (c. 1677/c. 75)
1602-1130 Otto von Guericke* German scientist/inventor/politician - Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire (1686/83)
1602-1204 Johann Hüsemann* German theologian - Esens, East Frisia (1661/58)
1602-1207 Anne Holck* noblewoman/war heroine - Tryggevælde, Denmark (1660/57)
1602-1218 Simonds d’Ewes* antiquary/politician - Milden, Suffolk, England (1650/47)
1602-1229 Simon Kexlerus* mathematician/astronomer/astrologer active in Finland - Kexle, Sweden (1669/66)
Updated 19.9.2022-1
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