| 1543 | Publication of "De Revolutionibus..." by Copernicus. |
| 1572 | Tycho's Nova |
| 1597 | Kepler's "Mysterium Cosmographicum" |
| 1600 | Shakespeare's "Hamlet". |
| 1604 | Kepler's "Optics" |
| 1609 | Kepler's "New Astronomy" |
| 1610 | Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius" |
| 1611 | Donne's "First Anniversarie" |
| 1618 | Kepler's "Harmonice Mundi" |
| 1632 | Galileo's "Dialogue on the Great Systems of the world" |
| 1621-1678 | Andrew Marvel |
| 1687 | Newton's "Principia" |
| 1688-1744 | Alexander Pope |
| 1752 | Voltaire's Micromegas |