Editing 1622 in science

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The year '''1622 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Mathematics==
* The [[slide rule]] is invented by [[William Oughtred]] ([[1574 in science|1574]]–[[1660 in science|1660]]), an English mathematician, and later becomes the calculating tool of choice until the [[electronic calculator]] takes over in the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oughtred Society Slide Rule History|url=http://www.oughtred.org/history.shtml|publisher=The Oughtred Society|date=2007-09-15|accessdate=2007-12-29| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221021607/http://www.oughtred.org/history.shtml| archivedate=21 December 2007 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>

==Physiology and medicine==
* [[Gaspare Aselli]] discovers the [[lacteal vessels]] of the [[lymphatic system]].<ref>{{cite book|title=De lactibus sive Lacteis venis|year=1627|location=Milan}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Premuda|first=Loris|title=Aselli, Gaspare|encyclopedia=[[Dictionary of Scientific Biography]]|volume=1|pages=315–316|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York|year=1970|isbn=0-684-10114-9}}</ref>
* [[Flemish people|Flemish]] anatomist Giulio Casserio publishes ''Nova anatomia'' in [[Frankfurt]], containing clear [[copperplate engraving]]s of the [[human anatomy]].

==Technology==
* February 22 – An [[England|English]] [[patent]] is granted for [[Dud Dudley]]'s process for [[smelting]] [[iron ore]] with [[coke (fuel)|coke]].

==Births==
* January 28 – [[Adrien Auzout]], [[French people|French]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1691 in science|1691]])
* March 10 – [[Johann Rahn]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1676 in science|1676]])
* April 5 – [[Vincenzo Viviani]], [[Italians|Italian]] mathematician and scientist (died [[1703 in science|1703]])
* ''undated'' – [[Jean Pecquet]], French [[anatomist]] (died [[1674 in science|1674]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bergman |first1=Ronald A. |last2=Afifi |first2=Adel K. |title=ANATOMY: An encyclopedic reference to the language of anatomy and neuroanatomy. It provides the fascinating origin of terms and biographies of anatomists/physicians who originated them. |date=2016 |publisher=Outskirts Press |isbn=9781478758211 |page=247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t3OhDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 |language=en}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* January 23 – [[William Baffin]], English explorer and navigator (born [[1584 in science|1584]])
* February 19 – Sir [[Henry Savile (Bible translator)|Henry Savile]], English polymath and benefactor (born [[1549 in science|1549]])
* April 13 – [[Katharina Kepler]], German healer and mother of [[Johannes Kepler]] (born [[1546 in science|1546]])
* May 15 – [[Petrus Plancius]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] and [[cosmographer]] (born [[1552 in science|1552]])

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