Editing 1615 in science

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The year '''1615 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Manuel Dias (Yang MaNuo)]], a Portuguese [[Jesuit China missions|Jesuit missionary]] introduces for the first time in China the [[telescope]] in his book ''Tian Wen Lüe'' (''Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis'').

==Chemistry==
* [[Jean Beguin]] publishes an edition of his chemistry textbook ''[[Tyrocinium Chymicum]]'' including the first-ever [[chemical equation]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Crosland|first=M. P.|year=1959|title=The use of diagrams as chemical 'equations' in the lectures of William Cullen and Joseph Black|journal=[[Annals of Science]]|volume=15|issue=2|pages=75–90|doi=10.1080/00033795900200088}}</ref>

==Mathematics==
* Summer &ndash; [[Henry Briggs (mathematician)|Henry Briggs]] meets [[John Napier]] for the first time in [[Edinburgh]].
* [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]] publishes ''Nova Stereometria'' (the first book printed in [[Linz]]), a significant work in [[Integral#History|pre-calculus integration]].<ref>''[[Dictionary of Scientific Biography]]''.</ref>

==Natural history==
* Posthumous publication in Mexico of ''Plantas y Animales de la Nueva Espana, y sus virtudes por [[Francisco Hernández de Toledo|Francisco Hernández]], y de Latin en Romance por Fr. Francisco Ximenez''.

==Physiology and medicine==
* [[Helkiah Crooke]]'s ''Mikrokosmographia, a Description of the Body of Man, together with the controversies and figures thereto belonging; collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius'' is published "by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant" by Crooke's patient, the printer [[William Jaggard]], in London.

==Technology==
* The first known [[sun|solar]]-activated device, a water pumping machine, is invented by [[Salomon de Caus]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Cutler|last=Cleveland|title=Caus, Salomon de|work=The Encyclopedia of Earth|date=2006-08-28|accessdate=2012-02-13|url=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Caus,_Salomon_de}}</ref>
* Approximate date – [[Croats|Croatian]] [[polymath]] [[Fausto Veranzio]] publishes ''Machinae Novae'' in [[Venice]] depicting around 50 machines and devices.

==Births==
* [[Nicasius le Febure]], French [[chemist]] (died [[1669 in science|1669]])
* [[Frans van Schooten]], Dutch [[mathematician]] who popularizes the [[analytic geometry]] of [[René Descartes|Descartes]] (died [[1660 in science|1660]])

==Deaths==
* February 4 – [[Giambattista della Porta]], Italian [[physician]] (born c. [[1535 in science|1535]])
* May 4 – [[Adriaan van Roomen]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1561 in science|1561]])
* October 9 − [[Heo Jun]], Korean physician (born [[1546 in science|1546]])
* November – [[Edward Wright (mathematician)|Edward Wright]], English mathematician (born 1561)
* November 24 – [[Sethus Calvisius]], German musician and [[astronomer]] (born [[1556 in science|1556]])
* [[Timothy Bright]], English physician (born c. [[1551 in science|1551]])
* [[Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi]], Italian historian and physician

==References==
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