1614 in science

none 1614 science 1614 The year 1614 in science and technology involved some significant events. Exploration July – Dutch merchant Adriaen Block returns to Amsterdam having, in the Onrust, having become the first European to enter Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River, and determined that Long Island is an island.https://books.google.com/books?id=JRA-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA489 History of the United States of America: from the discovery of the Continent George Bancroft George Bancroft 1886 1 489 He publishes a map of New Netherland. Mathematics Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ("Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms"), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark.http://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/napier/ademonstratiobookone.pdf The Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms John Napier Wright Edward Bruce Ian 1614 17centurymaths.com March 14, 2022 22 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230422184237/http://17centurymaths.com/contents/napier/ademonstratiobookone.pdf live Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the Solar System. Medicine Felix Plater gives a description of Dupuytren's contracture.7498844 1995 Belusa L. Selzer A.M. Partecke B.D. Description of Dupuytren disease by the Basel physician and anatomist Felix Plater in 1614 27 5 272–5 Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, plastische Chirurgie Sanctorius publishes De statica medicina, which will go through five editions in the following century. Births February 14 – Bishop John Wilkins, English natural philosopher, co-founder of the Royal Society (died 1672) Deaths July 28 – Felix Plater, Swiss physician (born 1536) Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese-born navigator (born 1565) William Lee, English-born inventor (born c. 1563) References Category:1614 Category:17th century in science Category:1610s in science