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1623 in science
Summary
The year
1623 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
List of years in science
(
table
)
…
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1614
1615
1616
1617
1618
1619
1620
1621
1622
1623
1624
1625
1626
1627
1628
1629
1630
1631
1632
1633
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Astronomy
edit
July 16 –
Great conjunction
of
Jupiter
and
Saturn
, the closest together the two planets come until 2020.
[1]
Biology
edit
Apple orchard at
Grönsö Manor
in Sweden planted; it will still be productive into the 21st century.
Psychology
edit
Erotomania
is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
[2]
Technology
edit
Wilhelm Schickard
draws a calculating clock on a letter to
Kepler
. This will be the first of five unsuccessful attempts at designing a
direct entry
calculating
clock in the 17th century (including the designs of
Tito Burattini
,
Samuel Morland
and
René Grillet
).
Births
edit
June 19 –
Blaise Pascal
,
French
mathematician
and
physicist
(died
1662
)
July 12 –
Elizabeth Walker
,
English
pharmacist (died
1690
)
August 26 –
Johann Sigismund Elsholtz
, German naturalist and physician (died
1688
)
September 1 –
Caspar Schamberger
, German surgeon and merchant (died
1706
)
September 23 –
Georg Balthasar Metzger
, German physician and scientist (died
1687
)
October 9 –
Ferdinand Verbiest
,
Flemish
Jesuit
Sinologist
and
astronomer
(died
1688
)
Margaret Lucas,
later
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
,
English
natural philosopher
(died
1673
)
[3]
Deaths
edit
May 26 –
Francis Anthony
, English apothecary and physician (born
1550
)
December 24 –
Michiel Coignet
, Flemish
engineer
,
cosmographer
,
mathematician
and
scientific instrument
-maker (born
1549
)
References
edit
^
Hunt, Jeffrey L. (2020-02-20). "1623: The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn".
When the Curves Line Up
. Retrieved
2020-12-05
.
^
Ferrand, Jacques.
Maladie d'amour, ou Mélancolie érotique
.
^
"Margaret Cavendish".
The British Library
. Retrieved
26 March
2019
.