1625 in science

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The year 1625 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Chemistry
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

Chemistry

Johann Rudolf Glauber discovers sodium sulfate (sal mirabilis or "Glauber's salt", used as a laxative) in Austrian spring water.^[1]

Births

June 8 - Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer (d. 1712)
March 25 - John Collins, English mathematician (d. 1683)
August 13 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish scientist (d. 1698)
December 16 - Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (d. 1699)
Samuel Morland, English inventor (d. 1695)

Deaths

March 7 - Johann Bayer, German uranographer (b. 1572)
April 7 - Adriaan van den Spiegel, Flemish-born anatomist and botanist (b. 1578)
Ferrante Imperato, Neapolitan natural historian (b. 1550)

References

^ Westfall, Richard S. (1995). "Glauber, Johann Rudolf". The Galileo Project. http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glauber.html. Retrieved 2011-10-17.