" Don Quixote, Part Two, published by the same press as its predecessor, appeared late in 1615, and quickly reprinted in Brussels and Valencia ( 1616 ) and Lisbon ( 1617 ).

Parts One and Two were published as one edition in Barcelona in 1617.

The first clear diagram of a thermoscope was published in 1617 by Giuseppe Biancani: the first showing a scale and thus constituting a thermometer was by Robert Fludd in 1638.

It is widely believed that in 1617, Veranzio implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice and that the event was documented some thirty years later by John Wilkins, founder and secretary of the Royal Society in London in his book Mathematical Magick or, the Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanical Geometry, published in London in 1648.

* 1617 — Giuseppe Biancani published the first clear diagram of a thermoscope

The second part was completed in 1617, but was not published until 1625 ( Leiden ), and 1627 ( London ), following Camden's death.

Fludd's philosophy is presented in Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia ( The metaphysical, physical, and technical history of the two worlds, namely the greater and the lesser, published in Germany between 1617 and 1621 ); according to Frances Yates, his memory system ( which she describes in detail in The Art of Memory, pp. 321 – 341 ) may reflect the layout of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre ( The Art of Memory, Chapter XVI ).

The book was published at the hands of William Knight, who wrote a Latin preface, he being only tentatively identified by scholars ( there are several candidate clergymen of that name, the one with dates ( c. 1573 – 1617?

In 1615 Hall published A Recollection of such treatises as have been published ( 1615, 1617, 1621 ); in 1625 appeared his Works ( reprinted 1627, 1628, 1634, 1662 ).

Clarke published a Latin version of the Traité de physique of Jacques Rohault ( 1617 (?

This popular work was continued and published in 1617.

The two towns were separated by one degree on the meridian, so from his measurement he was able to calculate a value for the circumference of the earth – a feat celebrated in the title of his book Eratosthenes Batavus ( The Dutch Eratosthenes ), published in 1617.

During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon ; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh, in 1617, he published the first chiliad of his logarithms.

He also completed a table of logarithmic sines and tangents for the hundredth part of every degree to fourteen decimal places, with a table of natural sines to fifteen places, and the tangents and secants for the same to ten places ; all of which were printed at Gouda in 1631 and published in 1633 under the title of Trigonometria Britannica ; this work was probably a successor to his 1617 Logarithmorum Chilias Prima (" The First Thousand Logarithms "), which gave a brief account of logarithms and a long table of the first 1000 integers calculated to the 14th decimal place.

His work Eratosthenes Batavus (" The Dutch Eratosthenes "), published in 1617, describes the method and gives as the result of his operations between Alkmaar and Bergen op Zoom — two towns separated by one degree of the meridian — which he measured to be equal to.

* October 18-King Charles I of England re-issues the Declaration of Sports, originally published by his father, King James I in 1617, listing the sports and recreations permitted on Sundays and other holy days.

In 1617, Pietro Carrera published a book Il Gioco degli Scacchi, which contained a description of a chess variant played on 8 × 10 board.

Napier delegated to Briggs the computation of a revised table, and they later published, in 1617, Logarithmorum Chilias Prima (" The First Thousand Logarithms "), which gave a brief account of logarithms and a table for the first 1000 integers calculated to the 14th decimal place.

The view of Krosno was included in the work of J. Braun and F. Hoghenberg entitled ‘ The Towns of the World ’, published in Cologne in 1617 or in Andreas Cellarius's work entitled ‘ Regin Poloniae Magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae omniumque regionum subiectorum novissima descriptio ’, published in Amsterdam in 1659.

Prospero Alpino ( 1553 – 1617 ) published in 1592 the highly popular account of overseas plants De Plantis Aegypti and he also established a botanical garden in Padua in 1542, which together with those at Pisa and Florence, rank among the world ’ s first.

In 1617 he wrote and published Il Gioco degli Scacchi ( The Game of Chess ), subdivided into eight books where " learning the rules, the odds, the endgames, the blindfold chess and a discussion about the true origins of chess in itself ".

Edmund Ludlow ( c. 1617 – 1692 ) was an English parliamentarian, best known for his involvement in the execution of Charles I, and for his Memoirs, which were published posthumously in a rewritten form and which have become a major source for historians of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

* The Radium Thieves: First published in issue 1617 on 23 January 1924.

Although Franciscus Vieta ( 1540 – 1603 ) gave the first notation of modern algebra, John Napier ( 1550 – 1617 ) invented logarithms, and Edmund Gunter ( 1581 – 1626 ) created the logarithmic scales ( lines, or rules ) upon which slide rules are based.

The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth ( 1617 – 88 ).

" John Minsheu ( or Minshew ) was the first lexicographer to define the word in this sense, in his Ductor in Linguas ( 1617 ), where he referred to " A Cockney or Cockny, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London ".

Between the years 1617 and 1626 the first brick church and a castle were built.

* George Chapman completed Marlowe's poem after Marlowe's death ; this version was often reprinted in the first half of the 17th century, with editions in 1598 ( Linley ); 1600 and 1606 ( Flasket ); 1609, 1613, 1617, 1622 ( Blount ); 1629 ( Hawkins ); and 1637 ( Leake ).

Some have stated ( without authority ) that at the relevant time tomatoes were unknown in China ; however, the first recorded mention of " tomato " in China is Zhao Han's ( 赵函 ) " Zhi Pin "(" 植品 ") ( 1617 ) which states that the tomato was introduced into China by missionaries in the late 16th century.

The House of Burgesses divided the colony first into four " incorporations " in 1617 and finally into eight shires ( or counties ) in 1634: James City, Henrico, Charles City, Charles River, Warrosquyoake, Accomac, Elizabeth City, and Warwick River.

It associated with the St Rose of Lima Parrish ( website ) and named for Rose of Lima ( 1586 – 1617 ), the first Catholic saint of the Americas.

The first institution inspired by the Crusca was the Fruitbearing Society for German language, which existed from 1617 to 1680.

The first petition for the establishment of a university in York was presented to King James I in 1617.

The Jewish cemetery in the south of the town dates to the first Jewish settlement in 1617 and is still in use today.

His description of the center stars as different from a comets head in that they were a " rectangle " may have been an early description of the Trapezium Cluster ( The first detection of three of the four stars of this cluster is credited to Galileo Galilei in a February 4, 1617 although he did not notice the surrounding nebula — possibly due to the narrow field of vision of his early telescope.

The first market hall — a timber-framed construction — was built in 1617 ; this was replaced by the second market hall ( called the Town Hall ) in 1839, which was a stone and red-brick construction.

The Riksdag Ordinance of 1617 first converted a turbulent and haphazard mob of " riksdagsmen " huddling together like a flock of sheep or drunken boors, into a dignified national assembly, meeting and deliberating according to rule and order.

In 1617, the Bradfords had their first child, John Bradford.

It is often misattributed to St. Augustine of Hippo, but seems to have been first used in the 17th century by the Archbishop of Split ( Spalato ) Marco Antonio de Dominis ( 1560-1624 ), in book 4, chapter 8 ( p. 676 of the first volume ) of his De republica ecclesiastica libri X ( London, 1617 ), where it appears in context as follows: Quod si in ipsa radice, hoc est sede, vel potius solio Romani pontificis haec abominationis lues purgaretur et ex communi ecclesiae consilio consensuque auferretur hic metus, depressa scilicet hac petra scandali ac ad normae canonicae iustitiam complanata, haberemus ecclesiae atrium aequabile levigatum ac pulcherrimis sanctuarii gemmis splendidissimum.

James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven ( c. 1617 – 11 October 1684 ) was the son of Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and his first wife, Elizabeth Barnham ( 1592 – c. 1622 ).

* Pocahontas ( 1595 – 1617 ), the daughter of a Native American chief, was to become the first such American to visit England.