In Padua Galileo Galilei built telescopes and turned them to the sky. In March 1610 he published The Starry Messenger: mountains on the Moon, countless stars in the Milky Way and four moons circling Jupiter.
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In the Bible · c. AD 95 (by tradition) · Patmos, in the Aegean Sea
John on Patmos
On the small island of Patmos, off the coast of Asia Minor, John sees the visions written in the book of Revelation.
Ps 23:1–6
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.At the same time in the world
It was the age of Shakespeare, of the first lasting English settlements in North America and of the first telescopes. Many phrases of the King James Version, also called the Authorized Version, became part of everyday English. Here is the world of the early 1600s.
ElsewhereGalileo’s telescopeAD 1609–1610
The AmericasJamestownAD 1607
English settlers founded Jamestown in Virginia, in the land of the Powhatan people — the first lasting English settlement in North America. In 1608 the French founded Quebec on the St. Lawrence River.
ChinaMatteo Ricci in BeijingAD 1601–1610
The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci lived in Beijing from 1601 until his death in 1610. With Chinese scholars he printed a great map of the whole world in Chinese and translated the first books of Euclid’s geometry.
IndiaJahangirreigned AD 1605–1627
The Mughal emperor Jahangir, who came to the throne in 1605, filled his memoirs with notes on birds, animals and plants, and his court painters made some of the finest Indian miniatures.
ElsewherePeace under the shogunsfrom AD 1603
Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun in 1603 and ruled Japan from Edo, today’s Tokyo. His family kept the country at peace for more than 250 years.
Mesopotamia and the Near EastThe Blue MosqueAD 1609–1616
In Istanbul, Sultan Ahmed I began a great mosque with six minarets, its walls inside lined with more than 20,000 blue-and-white tiles from İznik; it is still known as the Blue Mosque.
