1614 in science
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The year 1614 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Mathematics
- John Napier invents logarithms.[1]
[edit] Medicine
- Felix Plater gives a description of Dupuytren's contracture.[2]
- Sanctorius publishes De statica medicina, which will go through five editions in the following century.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese-born navigator (b. 1565)
- William Lee, English-born inventor (b. c.1563)
- Felix Plater, Swiss physician (b. 1536)
[edit] References
- ^ Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio.
- ^ Belusa, L.; Selzer, A.M.; Partecke, B.D. (1995). "Description of Dupuytren disease by the Basel physician and anatomist Felix Plater in 1614". Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, plastische Chirurgie 27 (5): 272–5. PMID 7498844.
