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Overview of the events of 1626 in science
The year 1626 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Physiology and medicine
Posthumous publication of
Adriaan van den Spiegel 's De formato foetu in
Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio and including the first observation of milk in female breasts at birth.
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Technology
Births
Deaths
February 11 –
Pietro Cataldi ,
Italian
mathematician (born
1548 )
April 9 –
Francis Bacon ,
English philosopher and a founder of modern scientific research (born
1561 )
April 11 –
Marin Getaldić or Ghetaldi ,
Ragusan politician, mathematician and physicist, contributed to the emergence of
new algebra (born
1568 )
April 14 –
Gaspare Aselli , Italian anatomist (born c.
1581 )
June 21 –
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt ,
Flemish -born humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist (born c.
1550 )
October 30 –
Willebrord Snellius , Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as
Snell's law (born
1580 )
December 10 –
Edmund Gunter , English mathematician (born
1581 )
Unknown date
References
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Needham, Joseph (1959). A History of Embryology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 99–100.