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The Scientific Revolution (1500-1700) was driven by several key inventions, all scientific instruments that became essential to achieving a greater understanding of the world around us. With instruments like the telescope, microscope, thermometer...

An 1872-3 oil on canvas painting, The Railway Station, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. Another of Manet's puzzles. The station itself (Paris' Gare St. Lazare) is not shown here at all, only the steam from the trains...

An Inca rest station on the Inca Trail, Peru. Such stations were built at regular intervals along most major Inca highways.

The Muronouchi side of Tokyo Station in 1914, the year it was completed.

The vigilant's station is a multi-level structure in Hadrian's Villa in Tivoly (Italy). It is referred to as "service buildings", and it is often associated with the vigilants or guards who protected the villa.

The Muromachi side of Tokyo Station at night with tall buildings on the Yaesu side in the background.

More than 2,000 years ago, extremely wealthy Romans lived on the sunny shores of the Bay of Naples at Pompeii and in opulent villas nearby, unconcerned about Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE), Augustus (r. 27 BCE...

The thermometer was invented in the mid-17th century during the Scientific Revolution when scientists began to search for an accurate instrument to measure a wide range of temperatures using a scale that could be compared with other readings...

The scientific method was first used during the Scientific Revolution (1500-1700). The method combined theoretical knowledge such as mathematics with practical experimentation using scientific instruments, results analysis and comparisons...

The invention of the telescope in 1608 is usually credited to the Dutchman Hans Lippershey. The astronomical telescope became one of the most important of all instruments during the Scientific Revolution when figures like Galileo (1564-1642...