1623 in science
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The year 1623 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Psychology
- Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.[1]
Technology
- 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)).[2]
Births
- June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)
- October 9 - Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit Sinologist and astronomer (died 1688)
- probable date - Margaret Lucas, later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (died 1673)
Deaths
- Michel Coignet, Flemish scientific instrument-maker (born 1549)
References
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