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| c. 1670 |
| | | The Dutch develop a new pattern of middle-class urban life and architecture, later copied in England | |
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| 1674 |
| | | The Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek builds a microscope powerful enough for him to observe and describe the red corpuscles in blood | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | Dutch traders purchase Kakiemon wares in Japan for import to the Netherlands | |
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| 1675 |
| | | Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, now develops the hairspring - of great future importance in watches | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | The double-hung sash window is introduced in England and soon spreads to Holland | |
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| 1677 |
| | | With his powerful new microscope Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa in the semen of a dog | |
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| c. 1677 |
| | | Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, dealing with God, the mind and the emotions, is published shortly after his death | |
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| 1678 |
| | | Christiaan Huygens expounds the theory that light consists of a vibration forming a ripple of waves | |
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| 1688 |
| | | English grandees invite William III of Orange and his wife Mary, daughter of James II, to claim the British throne | |
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| 1697 |
| | | The Russian tsar, Peter I, studies western European technology, working as a ship's carpenter in Dutch and English shipyards | |
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