1617 in science

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The year 1617 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

• 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 (d. 1688).

Deaths

• February 6 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1553).
• February 11 - Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (b. 1555).
• April 4 - John Napier of Merchiston, mathematician (b. 1550).
• May 7 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (b. 1564)