1629 in science
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The year 1629 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.
Botany
- In LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, John ParkinsonJohn Parkinson (botanist)John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I...
publishes Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris: a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permit to be noursed up.
Medicine
- Plague breaks out in MantuaMantuaMantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole...
and spreads to MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
. - In ToulouseToulouseToulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, Niall Ó GlacáinNiall Ó GlacáinNiall Ó Glacáin, or Nellanus Glacanus, Irish physician, c. 1563–1653.-Background:Ó Glacáin's date of birth is uncertain. MacCuinneagáin believes him to be about ninety upon his death in 1653, giving a birth date of around 1563. Giorgio Scharpes of the Faculty of Medicine, Bologna from 1634 to 1637,...
publishes Tractatus de Peste.
Technology
- In RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Giovanni BrancaGiovanni BrancaGiovanni Branca was an Italian engineer and architect, chiefly remembered today for what some commentators have taken to be an early steam engine.-Life:...
publishes .
Births
- April 14 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist (died 16951695 in scienceThe year 1695 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Events:* Gottfried Leibniz publishes his "New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances"....
) - Laurent CassegrainLaurent CassegrainLaurent Cassegrain was a Catholic priest who is notable as the probable inventor of the Cassegrain reflector, a folded two mirror reflecting telescope design.-Biography:...
, French priest and physicist (died 16931693 in scienceThe year 1693 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Actuarial science:* Edmond Halley publishes an article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society on life annuities featuring a life table constructed on the basis of statistics from Breslau provided by Caspar Neumann....
) - Jan Commelijn, Dutch botanist (died 16921692 in scienceThe year 1692 in science and technology:-Events:* In the American colonies, the Salem Witch trials develop, following 250 years of witch-hunts in Europe.-Mathematics:...
) - Christophe Glaser, Swiss pharmacian (died 16721672 in scienceThe year 1672 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Astronomy:* John Flamsteed determines the solar parallax from observations of Mars.* Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn....
) - Johann GlaserJohann GlaserJohann Glaser was an anatomist. He was born in Basel.The Glaserian fissure is name for him.-References:...
, Swiss anatomist. (died 16751675 in scienceThe year 1675 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Astronomy:* March 4 - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal of England.* Giovanni Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division....
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Deaths
- July 13 : Caspar Bartholin the ElderCaspar Bartholin the ElderCaspar Bartholin the Elder was born at Malmø, Denmark and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613...
, Danish polymath, physician and theologian (born 15851585 in scienceThe year 1585 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.-Mathematics:* John Blagrave publishes The Mathematical Jewel, showing the making and most excellent use of a singular instrument so called, in that it performeth with wonderful dexterity whatever is to be...
) - Giovanni FaberGiovanni FaberGiovanni Faber was a German papal doctor, botanist and art collector, originally from Bamberg in Bavaria, who lived in Rome from 1598. He was curator of the Vatican botanical garden, a member and the secretary of the Accademia dei Lincei. He acted throughout his career as a political broker...
, German papal doctor and botanist (born 15741574 in scienceThe year 1574 in science and technology involved some significant events.-Archaeology:* In Rome , in the river Tiber between the two bridges, the monument base is discovered for a statue of Simon Paeter , with inscription "Simoni Deo Sancto" .-Exploration:* Juan Fernández, a Portuguese...
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