The Renaissance

• Timeline of Important Dates

  . 1470s - First British printing press

  . 1543 - Vesalius' 'The Fabric of the Human Body'

  . 1628 - Harvey's 'On the Motions of the Heart and Blood'

  . 1660 - Royal Society founded

  . 1665 - Great Plague hits London

  . 1676 - Sydenham's 'Medical Observations'