1624 in science
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The year 1624 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Jakob Bartsch's star atlas[1] is the first to depict six recently discovered constellations, including Camelopardalis around the North Star.
Exploration
- July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
Mathematics
- Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
- Edmund Gunter produces The description and use of sector, the cross-staffe, and other instruments for such as are studious of mathematical practise, notable for being published in English as a practical text.[2]
Medicine
- Adriaan van den Spiegel, in Script error: No such module "Lang"., gives the first comprehensive description of malaria.
Technology
- 12 September – Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates his third submarine on the River Thames in England.
- The 15-arch Berwick Bridge in Great Britain by James Burrell is opened to traffic.
Events
- 25 May – The Parliament of England passes the Statute of Monopolies, requiring patent monopolies to show novelty.[3]
- The Parlement of France passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.[4]
Births
- 10 September – Thomas Sydenham, English physician, the first person to recommend the use of quinine for relieving symptoms of malaria (died 1689)
Deaths
- Giuseppe Biancani, Italian astronomer (born 1566)
- 5 December – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician who developed an important early plant classification system (born 1560)
- 26 December – Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)[5]