Events from 1620

Francis Bacon's Novum Organum - empirical method influences legal proof and fact-finding

Francis Bacon's 'Novum Organum' - 'Knowledge is power' - 'We must torture nature's secrets from her' - Rejects final causes (purpose)

St. Martin de Porres vision during racial persecution - Christ: 'Did I not die on the Cross for blacks as well as for whites? I am the same color in My Blood for all people'

Pilgrims bring apple seeds to America - first apple trees planted at Plymouth, begin North American apple cultivation

Last aurochs bull dies - only one female remains alive in Jaktorow Forest, extinction inevitable

Battle of White Mountain - Frederick's forces crushed in one hour - Protestant army flees - 'The Rosicrucian dream died on that field'