1618 in science

none February 2012 1618 science 1618 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.Arthur I. Miller Deciphering the cosmic number: the strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780393065329 registration March 7, 2011 2009 New York W. W. Norton & Co. 978-0-393-06532-9 80 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".Ereira Alan The Nine Lives of John Ogilby 2016 Duckworth 9780715652268 xxi 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.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) http://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/pj-online-the-society-treasures-of-the-royal-pharmaceutical-societys-collections/20012713.article The Pharmaceutical Journal 273 August 28, 2004 London Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 299 0031-6873 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 30em Category:1618 Category:17th century in science Category:1610s in science