In his Two New Sciences ( 1638 ), Galileo says that a hanging cord is an approximate parabola, and he correctly observes that this approximation improves as the curvature gets smaller and is almost exact when the elevation is less than 45 °.

Galileo's final statement of his mechanics, particularly of falling bodies, is his Two New Sciences ( 1638 ).

* 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.

New Sweden (, ) was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655.

An additional sample from another beam yielded a date of 1641, thus confirming the house had been constructed starting in 1638 as wood was not seasoned before use in building at that time in New England.

Since 1638, Sweden also maintained the colony of New Sweden along the Delaware River in North America.

He was the Director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1633, and he founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638.

Sea serpent sightings on the coast of New England, are documented beginning in 1638.

In 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina ( present day Wilmington, Delaware ) and quickly spread out in the valley.

* New Sweden ( 1638 – 1655 )

Expansion along the Delaware River beyond Fort Nassau did not begin until the 1650s, after the takeover of the colony of New Sweden, which had been established at Fort Christina in 1638.

* New Haven Colony, founded 1638, merged with Connecticut in 1665

New Haven was founded in 1638 by English Puritans, and a year later eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four grid, creating what is now commonly known as the " Nine Square Plan ", now recognized by the American Institute of Certified Planners as a National Planning Landmark.

The colony of New Sweden ( 1638 – 1655 ) was located along the Delaware River with settlements in modern Delaware ( e. g., Wilmington ), Pennsylvania ( e. g., Philadelphia ) and New Jersey ( e. g., New Stockholm and Swedesboro ).

In 1638, New Sweden was established which colonized the northern part of the state, together with the Delaware Valley.

The first European settlers arrived in the area around April 1638, creating the towns of Milford and New Haven, with their boundary split down the middle of what is now Bethany.

An area called " Totoket ", which became Branford, was part of the land bought from the Mattabesech Indians in 1638 by the first settlers of New Haven.

Originally settled by Puritans as part of the town of New Haven, Hamden was purchased by Theophilus Eaton and the Reverend John Davenport in 1638 from the local Quinnipiack Native American tribe.

New Haven Colony, one of the earliest colonies in America, was designed with a tiny 9-square grid at its founding in 1638.

* Translation of New Epistles by Moonsieur D ' Balzac ( 1638 )

The Discovery of a World in the Moone ( 1638 ) was followed up by A Discourse Concerning a New Planet ( 1640 ).

The area now known as Wilmington was first colonized by settlers from Sweden who in March 1638 arrived on the Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel.

Sweden lost the colony in 1638, the Swedish settlers sent

In 1638 Comenius responded to a request by the government of Sweden and traveled there to draw up a scheme for the management of the schools of that country, and in 1641, he responded to a request by the English parliament and joined a commission there charged with the reform of the system of public education.

Built in 1638 and named after Queen Christina of Sweden, it was located approximately 1 mi ( 1. 6 km ) east of the present downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Brandywine Creek and the Christina River, approximately 2 mi ( 3 km ) upstream from the mouth of the Christina on the Delaware River.

Following plans by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden to establish a Swedish colony in North America, the Swedes arrived in Delaware Bay on March 29, 1638 aboard the ships Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip under the command of Peter Minuit, the former director general of the New Netherland colony.

The development of the colony of New Sweden in the lower Delaware began in 1638.

Berkeley returned from Sweden in July 1637he had a commission in the army against the Scots in 1638, and was knighted at Berwick in that year.

New Sweden () was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River Valley from 1638 to 1655.

In 1638, it began to be settled by Swedes, Finns, Dutch, and Walloons and became the colony of New Sweden, though this was not officially recognized by the Dutch Empire who re-asserted control in 1655.

The thin nature of the corporate colony's presence in the bay and along what was called the South River ( now the Delaware ) made it possible for Peter Minuit, the former governor of New Netherland, to establish a competing Swedish sponsored settlement, New Sweden in 1638.

Alcione ( 1638 ) was so popular that the abbé d ' Aubignac knew it by heart, and Queen Christina of Sweden is said to have had it read to her three times in one day.

In 1638, New Sweden was established along the Delaware River.

They established a New Sweden Company and, following much negotiation, Minuit led a group under the flag of Sweden to the Delaware River in 1638.

The first permanent European settlement on Delaware soil was Fort Christina, resulting from Peter Minuit's 1638 expedition on the Swedish vessels Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel.

The Swedish naturalist and arachnologist Carl Jakob Sundevall ( 1801 – 1875 ) honored the naturalist Martin Lister ( 1638 – 1712 ) by adopting his term Opiliones for this order ; Lister characterized three species from England, United Kingdom ( although not formally describing them, being a pre-Linnean work ).

Still more was this the case in northern Germany, where Gallas commanded against the Swedish general Banér in 1637 and 1638.

The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638 – 1664 ( Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1911 )

In 1638 during the Thirty Years ' War, the Swedish colonel Beer plundered and pillaged Dramburg.

Fort Christina, the first permanent European settlement in Delaware, was established at the confluence of Brandywine Creek and the Christina River in 1638 as a part of the Swedish colony of New Sweden.

The Swedish slave trade occurred in the early history of Sweden, and again during the 17th century, around the time Swedish overseas colonies were established in North America ( 1638 ) and in Africa ( 1650 ).

In 1638, Swedish settlers established New Sweden in the Delaware Valley, at a location enabling them to intercept the Susquehannock fur trade with the Dutch.

Carl ( the later Charles XV of Sweden ) belonged to the first Swedish-born generation of the Bernadotte dynasty, and he and his brothers were also the first members of any Swedish royal dynasty to attend university since Charles X, who had been matriculated in Uppsala somewhat over 200 years earlier ( 1638 ).

In March 1638, Swedish colonists led by Peter Minuit landed in what is today Wilmington, Delaware, proclaiming the west bank of the Delaware River to be " New Sweden ".

Catherine of Sweden ( Swedish: Katarina av Sverige ) ( 10 November 1584 – 13 December 1638 ) was a Swedish princess and a Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken as the consort of her second cousin John Casimir of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.