1617 in science
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The year 1617 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Johannes Kepler begins to publish his Epitome astronomiæ Copernicanæ setting out his theory of elliptic orbits.
Mathematics
- James Gregory mentions an incomplete result of what is later known as Taylor's theorem.[1]
- Napier’s Bones, a multiplication device invented by John Napier, is described in his Rabdologiæ, published in Edinburgh.
Medicine
- The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London is granted a royal charter, separating it from the Grocers.
Births
- July 13 (bapt.) - Ralph Cudworth, Cambridge Platonist (died 1688).
Deaths
- January 29 - William Butler, Irish alchemist (at sea) (born c. 1534).
- February 6 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1553).
- February 11 - Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (born 1555).
- April 4 - John Napier of Merchiston, mathematician (born 1550).
- May 7 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (born 1564)
References
- ↑ Kline, Morris (1972). Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times 2. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 442, 464.
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