Alex Gratama senior advisor with law firm VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne 
Cooperating Foundations open their SXM office and finance furniture for White and Yellow Cross to the tune of Naf 73,368.00 
1658 The first illustrated book for children published in Germany.
1659 Anglo-Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle develops an air pump for creating vacuums, confirms Galilei’s view that bodies fall in a vacuum at the same rate, regardless of weight; discovers that sound does not travel in a vacuum.
1660 Robert Hooke of London claims he invented and applied the hairspring to the balance wheel. However, the invention is widely credited to Christiaan Huygens and Abbé d’Hautefeuille who simultaneously developed the use of a hairspring with the balance wheel in 1674. Charles II crowned King of England.
1661 Paris Opera Ballet founded. Irish-born scientist Robert Boyle publishes The Skeptical Chymist, rejecting both the classical elements of earth, air, fire, and water, and the medieval elements of salt, sulfur, and mercury proposed by Aristotle and Paracelsus. Boyle’s mechanical philosophy forms the basis of chemistry as a scientific discipline, leaving behind its roots in alchemy.
