1623 in science

none 1623 science 1623 The year 1623 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy July 16 – Great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the closest together the two planets come until 2020.Jeffrey L. Hunt 1623: The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn 2020-02-20 https://whenthecurveslineup.com/2020/02/20/1623-the-great-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn/ When the Curves Line Up 2020-12-05 Biology Apple orchard at Grönsö Manor in Sweden planted; it will still be productive into the 21st century. Psychology Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.Jacques Ferrand Maladie d'amour, ou Mélancolie érotique Technology Wilhelm Schickard draws a calculating clock on a letter to Kepler. This will be the first of five unsuccessful attempts at designing a direct entry calculating clock in the 17th century (including the designs of Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet). Births June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662) July 12 – Elizabeth Walker, English pharmacist (died 1690) August 26 – Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, German naturalist and physician (died 1688) September 1 – Caspar Schamberger, German surgeon and merchant (died 1706) September 23 – Georg Balthasar Metzger, German physician and scientist (died 1687) October 9 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit Sinologist and astronomer (died 1688) Margaret Lucas, later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (died 1673)Margaret Cavendish https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish The British Library 26 March 2019 26 March 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190326131844/https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish dead Deaths May 26 – Francis Anthony, English apothecary and physician (born 1550) December 24 – Michiel Coignet, Flemish engineer, cosmographer, mathematician and scientific instrument-maker (born 1549) References Category:17th century in science Category:1620s in science