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entering a key phase in this era, as the work of
Johannes Kepler in Germany and Galileo Galilei
in Italy brought the Copernican revolution to a
new level of development. On practical level,
much work was done in the areas of navigation,
cartography, and surveying—John Widdowes' A
Description of the World (1621)
• Arts - Daniel Mytens was the most prominent
portrait painter during the reign of James, as
Anthony van Dyck would be under the coming
reign of his son.
• Emergence of Tobacco - the Jacobean era saw a
sweeping change with the growing prevalence of
tobacco use. James I published his A
Counterblaste to Tobacco in 1604, but the book
had no discernible effect; by 1612, London had
7000 tobacconists and smoking houses.

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