1613 in science
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The year 1613 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Galileo Galilei publishes Letters on Sunspots, the first major work on the topic
[edit] Medicine
- Heo Jun publishes Dongui Bogam, a key text in traditional Korean medicine.[1]
[edit] Technology
- September 29 - The New River (engineered by Sir Hugh Myddelton) is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.[2]
[edit] Births
- September 25 - Claude Perrault, French architect and physicist (d. 1688)
[edit] Deaths
- June 16 - Jakob Christmann, German orientalist and astronomer (b. 1554)
- July 2 - Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist (b. 1561)
- August 25 - David Gans, German Jewish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1541)
- Mathew Baker, English shipwright (b. 1530)
- Johann Bauhin, Swiss physician and botanist (b. 1541)
- Jacques Guillemeau, French surgeon (b. 1550)
[edit] References
- ^ "The History of Science in Korea". Korean Culture and Information Service. http://www.korea.net/kois/eng_si_read.asp?slide_no=191.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
