Galileo advertised the puzzle to other scientists, including Gaspar Berti who replicated it by building the first water barometer in Rome in 1639.

When Gilbert Dethick, the Lord of the Manor of Poplar, died in 1639 he left a further £ 100 towards the building of the chapel, on the condition that work started within three years of his death.

The building is in the downtown area at 1639 Glacier Avenue, Juneau, AK 99801.

The current building dates from 1639 and is still a working farm.

He erected Harvard's first building, planted its first apple orchard, established the colony's first printing press in March 1639, and created its first semi-public library.

As for the £ 100, Thomas Symonds – a carpenter who had apparently assisted in the building of the college at Cambridge in 1639 and afterwards – was soon found to be in debt to one of the creditors of the college, John Cogan, for exactly the same amount.

During 1638 and 1639 Lemercier was appointed premier architecte charged with supervision of all the royal building enterprises, in which capacity he fell into a disagreeable dispute with the cultivated Nicolas Poussin about the decorations in the Louvre.

The largest settlement was New France, with the towns of Quebec City ( 1608 ) and Montreal ( fur trading post in 1611, Roman Catholic mission established in 1639, and colony founded in 1642 ).

* 1639: The Jesuit mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is established at Wendake.

North of the Great Lakes, a mission, Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, was established in 1639.

In 1639, Mother Marie of the Incarnation ( née Marie Guyart, b. 1599 ), two other Ursuline nuns, and a Jesuit priest left France for a mission to Canada.

The fort was built in 1623 by the Portuguese and captured in 1639 by the Dutch.

This fort was built in 1639.

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons () was a French Jesuit settlement in Wendake, the land of the Wendat, near modern Midland, Ontario, from 1639 to 1649.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.

The first man-made canal in North America, Mother Brook, was created in Dedham in 1639.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

* 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders ", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.

* 1639 – Simon van der Stel the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ( d. 1712 )

In 1639 Lovelace joined the regiment of Lord Goring, serving first as a senior ensign and later as a captain in the Bishops ’ Wars.

The first American sea serpent, reported from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in 1639.

In 1639 the Russians first reached the Pacific 65 miles southeast at the mouth of the Ulya River.

Yair Chayim Bacharach ( 1639, Lipník nad Bečvou, Moravia — 1702 ) was a German rabbi and major 17th century posek, who lived first in Koblenz and then remainder of his life in Worms and Metz.

In a preliminary battle, the Action of 18 September 1639, Tromp was the first fleet commander known to deliberately use line of battle tactics.

Following a period of little distinguished activity in the 1630s, Essex served in the army of King Charles I during the first Scottish Bishops ' War in 1639.

William Beardsley ( 1605 – 1661 ) was also one of the first settlers of Stratford in 1639.

He became a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella.

He began to write for the stage in 1639 ( Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo ) soon after the first public opera house opened in Venice, the Teatro San Cassiano.

The first colonial residents moved to Acton in 1639.

Wayland was the first settlement of Sudbury Plantation in 1639.

This was called the Bishops ' War ( 1639 – 1640 ) and it had two major parts: The first Bishops ' War ( 1639 ) ended in a truce.

* The Black Sluice District, much of which was known as the Lindsey Level when it was first drained in 1639, extends from the Glen and Bourne Eau to Swineshead.

The route was that taken by the Earl Marischal and Marquess of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of over 9000 men in the first battle of the Civil War in 1639.

Map of Macau Peninsula in 1639, long after the first Portuguese settlement there and in the same year that the city began to decline due to halt of trade shipments from Japan.

In British America, William Pierce of Harvard College published the first American almanac entitled, An Almanac for New England for the year 1639 Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1639 it acquired Madras on the east coast of India, where it quickly surpassed Portuguese Goa as the principal European trading centre on the Indian Subcontinent.

The main period of witch hunting in Osnabrück was between 1561 and 1639, a time of social unrest and tensions because of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion.

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut ( c. 1639 – 25 February 1710 ) was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, Minnesota is now located and the headwaters of the Mississippi River near Grand Rapids.

* 1634 – 40: The Huron nation is reduced by half from European diseases ( smallpox epidemic, 1639 ).

Acuña was the first European to describe the Casiquiare canal, a natural canal linking the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, in 1639.

Under the subsequent sakoku policy, from 1639 till 1854 ( 215 years ) the Dutch were the only European power allowed to operate in Japan, confined in 1639 to Hirado and then from 1641 at Deshima.

First European settlers to the area arrived 1633, with more settlers arrived in 1639.