Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in Nuremberg, Germany, which eventually alters the science of astronomy forever.
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In fact, the year was beset by great calamity for England (including the Great Fire of London), but Dryden chose to interpret the absence of greater disaster as miraculous intervention by God, as "666" is the Number of the Beast and the year 1666 was expected by some to be particularly disastrous.
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He was afforded the time to work on his theories due to the closure of Cambridge University by an outbreak of plague.
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In Chris Roberson's short story "Annus Mirabilis" from the second volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, Doctor Omega and Albert Einstein investigate apergy.