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The year
1618 in science
and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
March 8 – May 15 –
Johannes Kepler
formulates the
third law of planetary motion
.
[1]
July 21 –
Pluto
(not known at this time) reaches an
aphelion
. It next comes to aphelion in
1866
.
Johann Baptist Cysat
,
Swiss
Jesuit
geometer and
astronomer
and one of
Christoph Scheiner
's pupils, becomes the first to study a
comet
through the telescope and gives the first description of the
nucleus
and
coma
of a comet.
September 6–25 – The
Great Comet
of 1618 is visible to the naked eye.
James I
described it as "Venus with a firebrand in her arse".
[2]
Biology
Fortunio Liceti
's
De spontaneo Viventium Ortu
supports the theory of
spontaneous generation
of organisms.
Medicine
The
College of Physicians of London
publishes the
Pharmacopœia Londinensis
.
[3]
Births
April 2 –
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
, Italian
physicist
, discoverer of the diffraction of light (died 1663)
Jeremiah Horrocks
, English
astronomer
(died 1641)
Deaths
June 6 – Sir
James Lancaster
, English navigator (born 1554)
October 29 –
Walter Ralegh
, English explorer (born c. 1554)
Luca Valerio
, Italian
mathematician
(born 1553)
References
^
Miller, Arthur I. (2009).
Deciphering the cosmic number: the strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p.
80
.
ISBN
978-0-393-06532-9
. Retrieved
March 7,
2011
.
^
Ereira, Alan (2016).
The Nine Lives of John Ogilby
. Duckworth. p. xxi.
ISBN
9780715652268
.
^
Medicorum Collegij Londinensis.
Pharmacopœia Londinensis in qua medicamenta antiqua et nova vsitatissima, sedulò collecta, accuratissimè examinata, quotidiana experientia confirmata describuntur. Opera Medicorum Collegij Londinensis. Ex serenissimi Regis mandato cum R.M. Priuilegio
. Printed by Edwardus Griffin for Iohannis Marriot.
See:
"Treasures of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's collections:
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
1618 (The London Pharmacopoeia)"
.
The Pharmaceutical Journal
.
273
. London:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
: 299. August 28, 2004.
ISSN
0031-6873
.
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