1624 in science
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The year 1624 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Events
- 25 May – The Parliament of England passes the Statute of Monopolies, requiring patent monopolies to show novelty.[1]
- The Parlement of France passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.[2]
Chemistry
- Cornelius Drebbel makes discoveries concerning gases.[citation needed]
Exploration
- July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
Mathematics
- Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
- Edmund Gunter produces The description and use of sector, the cross-staffe, and other instruments for such as are studious of mathematical practise, notable for being published in English as a practical text.[3]
Medicine
- Adriaan van den Spiegel, in De semitertiana libri quatuor, gives the first comprehensive description of malaria.
Technology
- Completion of the 15-arch Berwick Bridge in Great Britain by James Burrell.
Births
- 10 September – Thomas Sydenham, English physician, the first person to recommend the use of quinine for relieving symptoms of malaria (died 1689)
Deaths
- Giuseppe Biancani, Italian astronomer (born 1566)
- 5 December – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician who developed an important early plant classification system (born 1560)
- 26 December – Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)
