1621 in science

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The year 1621 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Botany 3 Medicine 4 Physics 5 Technology 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References

Astronomy

• Johann Schreck (1576-1630), also known as Johannes Schreck, Terrenz or Terrentius, introduces the telescope to China.^[1]

Botany

• The University of Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanical garden in Great Britain, is founded as a physic garden by Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby.^[2]

Medicine

• Robert Burton publishes his treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Physics

• Willebrord Snellius formulates Snell's law on refraction.

Technology

• A simple microscope is developed.
• Cornelius Vermuyden begins reclamation of Canvey Island in England.

Births

• January 27 - Thomas Willis, English physician who contributes to knowledge of the nervous and cardiovascular systems (d. 1675)

Deaths

• July 2 - Thomas Harriot, English ethnographer, astronomer and mathematician (b. c.1560)
• Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (b. 1566)

References