16th Century
| Brahe | |
| Tycho Brahe Danish Astronomer | |
| Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez - in 1542 he sailed up the coast of what was then "New Spain" and discovered and named San Diego Bay and Santa Barbara. | |
| Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557) - he went looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him. | |
| Copernican Model: A Sun-Centered Solar System | |
| Copernicusn | |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | |
| Scientists: Nicolas Copernicus | |
| Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de (1510-1554) - he set out in 1540 in search of a golden city, called Cibola, joined by a large expedition of Spanish, Indian allies, and slaves. | |
| Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico - from the Modern History SourceBook. | |
| Texas Explorers - Cortez - correspondence between a student and an educator on the subject of the Spanish conqueror. | |
| English Mercurie, The - July 23rd, 1588 - account of Sir Francis Drake's confrontation with the Spanish Armada. | |
| Galileo and the Mathematics of Motion - explantion his experiments with gravity using animated MPG files. | |
| Letter to Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 - written by Galileo. | |
| Astronomy HyperText Book: Planetary Motion - containing animations of Kepler's laws. | |
| Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion | |
| Kepler | |
| Newton and Kepler | |