1634 in science
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The year 1634 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
- Thomas JohnsonThomas Johnson (botanist)Thomas Johnson has been called "The Father of British Field Botany" but has been largely neglected, no doubt largely due to the very scanty records of his life which have survived. Such as there are, moreover, in any cases confuse rather than help the biographer, owing to the popularity of the...
begins publishing Mercurius Botanicus, including a list of indigenous British plants.
Mathematics
- Gilles de RobervalGilles de RobervalGilles Personne de Roberval , French mathematician, was born at Roberval, Oise, near Beauvais, France. His name was originally Gilles Personne or Gilles Personier, that of Roberval, by which he is known, being taken from the place of his birth.Like René Descartes, he was present at the siege of La...
shows that the area under a cycloidCycloidA cycloid is the curve traced by a point on the rim of a circular wheel as the wheel rolls along a straight line.It is an example of a roulette, a curve generated by a curve rolling on another curve....
is three times the area of its generating circleCircleA circle is a simple shape of Euclidean geometry consisting of those points in a plane that are a given distance from a given point, the centre. The distance between any of the points and the centre is called the radius....
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Medicine
- Louise Bourgeois BoursierLouise Bourgeois BoursierLouise Bourgeois Boursier or Louise Bourgeois or Louyse Bourgeous was a French midwife called The Scholar...
publishes her Collection of Secrets on obstetricsObstetricsObstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...
in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, including techniques such as podalic versionPodalic versionPodalic version is an obstetric procedure wherein the fetus is turned within the womb such that one or both feet present through the cervix during childbirth. It is used most often in cases where the fetus lies transversely or in another abnormal position in the womb...
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Zoology
- Publication of Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum 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...
, compiled posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas PennyThomas PennyThomas Penny was an English physician and early entomologist. His solo works have not survived and he is primarily known through quotations from other sixteenth century biologists. It is believed that he broke with Aristotle on classification of caterpillars. He was also a Puritan and as such kept...
by Thomas MuffetThomas MuffetThomas Muffet was an English naturalist and physician. He is best known for his Puritan beliefs, his study of insects in regards to medicine , his support of the Paracelsian system of medicine, and his emphasis on the importance of experience over reputation in the field of medicine.-Early...
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Deaths
- February 15 - Wilhelm FabryWilhelm FabryWilhelm Fabry , often called the "Father of German surgery", was the first educated and scientific German surgeon. He is one of the most prominent scholars in the iatromechanics school and author of 20 medical books...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
-born surgeonSurgeonIn medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
(b. 15601560 in scienceThe year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.-Events:* The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded in Naples by Giambattista della Porta.-Astronomy:...
) - November 7 - Cornelius DrebbelCornelius DrebbelCornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was the Dutch builder of the first navigable submarine in 1620. Drebbel was an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry....
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
inventor (b. 15721572 in scienceThe year 1572 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.-Astronomy:* November 9 - A supernova, now designated as SN 1572, is first observed in the constellation Cassiopeia by Cornelius Gemma...
) - Nikolaus AgerNikolaus AgerNikolaus Ager was a French botanist born in Alsace, best known for his treatise De Anima Vegetiva ....
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
botanist (b. 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...
) - Martin Llewellyn, British cartographerCartographyCartography is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.The fundamental problems of traditional cartography are to:*Set the map's...
(b. 1565?)