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The year '''1614 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Mathematics==
* [[Scottish people|Scottish]] mathematician [[John Napier]] publishes ''[[Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio]]'' ("Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms"), outlining his discovery of [[logarithm]]s and incorporating the [[decimal mark]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/napier/ademonstratiobookone.pdf|title=The Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms|first=John|last=Napier|translator-last1=Wright|translator-first1=Edward|translator-last2=Bruce|translator2-first=Ian|year=1614|publisher=17centurymaths.com|access-date=March 14, 2022|archive-date=22 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422184237/http://17centurymaths.com/contents/napier/ademonstratiobookone.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[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]].<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=7498844|year=1995|last1=Belusa|first1=L.|last2=Selzer|first2=A.M.|last3=Partecke|first3=B.D.|title=Description of Dupuytren disease by the Basel physician and anatomist Felix Plater in 1614|volume=27|issue=5|pages=272–5|journal=Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, plastische Chirurgie}}</ref>
* [[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 in science|1672]])

==Deaths==
* July 28 – [[Felix Plater]], Swiss [[physician]] (born [[1536 in science|1536]])
* [[Pedro Fernandes de Queirós]], Portuguese-born navigator (born [[1565 in science|1565]])
* [[William Lee (inventor)|William Lee]], English-born inventor (born c. [[1563 in science|1563]])

==References==
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