1626 in science
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The year 1626 in science
and technology
involved some significant events.
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
involved some significant events.
Technology
- Cornelius VermuydenCornelius VermuydenSir Cornelius Wasterdyk Vermuyden was a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch reclamation methods to Britain, and made the first important attempts to drain The Fens of East Anglia.-Life:...
commissioned to drain Hatfield ChaseHatfield ChaseHatfield Chase was a low-lying area in South Yorkshire, England which often flooded and is chiefly known from the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633. It was a royal hunting ground until Charles I appointed the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden to drain it in 1626...
on the Isle of AxholmeIsle of AxholmeThe Isle of Axholme is part of North Lincolnshire, England. It is the only part of Lincolnshire west of the River Trent. It is between the three towns of Doncaster, Scunthorpe and Gainsborough.- Description:...
in LincolnshireLincolnshireLincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Births
- February 18 or February 19 - Francesco RediFrancesco RediFrancesco Redi was an Italian physician, naturalist, and poet.-Biography:The son of Gregorio Redi and Cecilia de Ghinci was born in Arezzo on February 18, 1626. After schooling with the Jesuits, he attended the University of Pisa...
, Italian physician, biologist and poet (died 16971697 in scienceThe year 1697 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Deaths:* January 26 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician...
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- Ole BorchOle BorchOle Borch was a Danish scientist, physician, grammarian, and poet, most famous today for being the teacher at the Vor Frue Skole in Copenhagen of Nicholas Steno. Borch had studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen and distinguished himself in the plague of 1654, when a third of...
, Danish chemist, physician, grammarian and poet (died 16901690 in scienceThe year 1690 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Technology:* Denis Papin, while in Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', he builds a working model of a piston steam engine, the first of its kind.* The first paper money...
) - Pietro MengoliPietro MengoliPietro Mengoli was an Italian mathematician and clergyman from Bologna, where he studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri at the University of Bologna, and succeeded him in 1647...
, Italian mathematician (died 16861686 in scienceThe year 1686 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Biology:* John Ray begins publication of his Historia Plantarum, including the first biological definition of the term species; also his edition of Francis Willughby's Historia Piscum.-Geology:* Edmund Halley establishes the...
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Deaths
- February 11 - Pietro CataldiPietro CataldiPietro Antonio Cataldi was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation. He was one of many mathematicians who attempted to...
, ItalianItalian peopleThe Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...
mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
(born 15481548 in scienceThe year 1548 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.-Events:* February 14 - Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan....
) - April 9 - Francis BaconFrancis BaconFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...
, EnglishEnglish peopleThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
philosopher and a founder of modern scientific research (born 15611561 in scienceThe year 1561 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.-Cartography:* Bartolomeu Velho produces a for Sebastian of Portugal.-Medicine and physiology:...
) - April 11 - Marin Getaldić or GhetaldiMarin GetaldicMarin Getaldić was a scientist from the Republic of Ragusa. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics. He was one of the few students of François Viète....
, Italian politician, mathematician and physicist, contributed to the emergence of new algebraNew algebraThe new algebra or symbolic analysis is a formalization of algebra promoted by François Viète in 1591 and by his successors...
(born 15681568 in scienceThe year 1568 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Botany:* Orto Botanico di Bologna botanical garden created under the direction of Ulisse Aldrovandi.-Births:* October 2 - Marin Getaldić, Ragusan mathematician...
) - April 14 - Gaspare Aselli, Italian anatomist (born circa 15811581 in scienceThe year 1581 in science and technology included some events, some of which are listed here.-Geophysics:* Robert Norman publishes his observations of magnetic dip in .-Births:* Edmund Gunter, English mathematician ....
) - June 21 - Anselmus Boëtius de BoodtAnselmus de BoodtAnselmus de Boodt was a Belgian mineralogist and physician from the city of Brugge during the European Renaissance. Along with the "Father of Mineralogy", the German known by his nom de plume Georgius Agricola, Anselmus is responsible for establishing the modern geological earth science study of...
, Belgian humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist (born circa 15501550 in science-Medicine:* approx. date - Establishment of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London.-Births:* September 30 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician * John Napier, Scottish mathematician...
) - October 30 - Willebrord SnelliusWillebrord SnelliusWillebrord Snellius was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician. In the west, especially the English speaking countries, his name has been attached to the law of refraction of light for several centuries, but it is now known that this law was first discovered by Ibn Sahl in 984...
, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as Snell's lawSnell's lawIn optics and physics, Snell's law is a formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing through a boundary between two different isotropic media, such as water and glass...
(born 15801580 in scienceThe year 1580 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.-Exploration:* September 26 - Francis Drake in the Golden Hind sails into Plymouth having completed the second circumnavigation of the world, westabout, begun in 1577.-Births:* December 1 - Nicolas-Claude...
) - December 10 - Edmund GunterEdmund GunterEdmund Gunter , English mathematician, of Welsh descent, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581.He was educated at Westminster School, and in 1599 was elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford. He took orders, became a preacher in 1614, and in 1615 proceeded to the degree of bachelor in divinity...
, English mathematician (born 15811581 in scienceThe year 1581 in science and technology included some events, some of which are listed here.-Geophysics:* Robert Norman publishes his observations of magnetic dip in .-Births:* Edmund Gunter, English mathematician ....
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- Salomon de CausSalomon de CausSalomon de Caus was a French engineer and once credited with the development of the steam engine.Salomon was the elder brother of Isaac de Caus. Being a Huguenot, he spent his life moving across Europe....
, French mechanical and hydraulic engineer (born 15761576 in scienceThe year 1576 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.-Astronomy:* August 8 - Work begins on Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on Hven in Øresund.-Botany:...
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