1634 in science

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The year 1634 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

• Thomas Johnson begins publishing Mercurius Botanicus, including a list of indigenous British plants.

Mathematics

• Gilles de Roberval shows that the area under a cycloid is three times the area of its generating circle.

Medicine

• Louise Bourgeois Boursier publishes her Collection of Secrets on obstetrics in Paris, including techniques such as podalic version.

Zoology

• Publication of Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum in London, compiled posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny by Thomas Muffet.

Deaths

• February 15 - Wilhelm Fabry, German-born surgeon (b. 1560)
• November 7 - Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
• Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (b. 1568)
• Martin Llewellyn, British cartographer (b. 1565?)