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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.<ref>{{cite web|first=Jeffrey L.|last=Hunt|title=1623: The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn|date=2020-02-20|url=https://whenthecurveslineup.com/2020/02/20/1623-the-great-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn/|work=When the Curves Line Up|accessdate=2020-12-05}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Ferrand|title=Maladie d'amour, ou Mélancolie érotique}}</ref>

==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'' [[Mechanical calculator|calculating]] clock in the 17th century (including the designs of [[Tito Livio Burattini|Tito Burattini]], [[Samuel Morland]] and [[René Grillet de Roven|René Grillet]]).

==Births==
* June 19 – [[Blaise Pascal]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] and [[physicist]] (died [[1662 in science|1662]])
* July 12 – [[Elizabeth Walker (pharmacist)|Elizabeth Walker]], [[English people|English]] pharmacist (died [[1690 in science|1690]])
* August 26 – [[Johann Sigismund Elsholtz]], German naturalist and physician (died [[1688 in science|1688]])
* September 1 – [[Caspar Schamberger]], German surgeon and merchant (died [[1706 in science|1706]])
* September 23 – [[Georg Balthasar Metzger]], German physician and scientist (died [[1687 in science|1687]])
* October 9 – [[Ferdinand Verbiest]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[Jesuit]] [[Sinologist]] and [[astronomer]] (died [[1688 in science|1688]])
* [[Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne|Margaret Lucas, ''later'' Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne]], [[English people|English]] [[natural philosopher]] (died [[1673 in science|1673]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Cavendish |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish |website=The British Library |accessdate=26 March 2019}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* May 26 – [[Francis Anthony]], English apothecary and physician (born [[1550 in science|1550]])
* December 24 – [[Michiel Coignet]], Flemish [[engineer]], [[cosmographer]], [[mathematician]] and [[scientific instrument]]-maker (born [[1549 in science|1549]])

==References==
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