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The year '''1624 in science''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Jakob Bartsch]]'s star atlas<ref>''Usus astronomicus planisphaerii stellati''</ref> is the first to depict six recently discovered constellations, including [[Camelopardalis]] around the [[North Star]].

==Exploration==
* July or August – [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] priest [[António de Andrade]] becomes the first European to enter [[Tibet]].

==Mathematics==
* [[Henry Briggs (mathematician)|Henry Briggs]] publishes ''Arithmetica Logarithmica''.
* [[Edmund Gunter]] produces ''The description and use of sector, the cross-staffe, and other instruments for such as are studious of mathematical practise'', notable for being published in English as a practical text.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=4&EventId=385|title=Who invented the calculus? – and other 17th century topics|first=Robin|last=Wilson|author-link=Robin Wilson (mathematician)|publisher=[[Gresham College]]|location=London|date=2005-11-16|accessdate=2011-06-06|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928035913/http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=4&EventId=385|archivedate=28 September 2007<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* [[Adriaan van den Spiegel]], in ''{{lang|la|De semitertiana libri quatuor}}'', gives the first comprehensive description of [[malaria]].

==Technology==
* 12 September – [[Cornelis Drebbel]] demonstrates his third [[submarine]] on the [[River Thames]] in England. 
* The 15-arch [[Berwick Bridge]] in Great Britain by James Burrell is opened to traffic.

==Events==
* 25 May – The [[Parliament of England]] passes the [[Statute of Monopolies]], requiring [[patent]] monopolies to show novelty.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bloxam|first=G. A.|year=1957|title=Letters Patent for Inventions: their Use and Misuse|journal=Journal of Industrial Economics|publisher=Wiley|volume=5|issue=3|issn=0022-1821}}</ref>
* The [[Parlement]] of France passes a decree forbidding criticism of [[Aristotle]] on pain of death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/158787/Rene-Descartes/43352/Residence-in-the-Netherlands|title=René Descartes|year=2009|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=2009-10-11}}</ref>

==Births==
* 10 September – [[Thomas Sydenham]], English [[physician]], the first person to recommend the use of [[quinine]] for relieving symptoms of [[malaria]] (died [[1689 in science|1689]])

==Deaths==
* [[Giuseppe Biancani]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1566 in science|1566]])
* 5 December – [[Gaspard Bauhin]], Swiss [[botanist]] and physician who developed an important early plant classification system (born [[1560 in science|1560]])
* 26 December – [[Simon Marius]], German astronomer (born [[1573 in science|1573]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Simon Marius {{!}} German astronomer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simon-Marius |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |accessdate=29 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

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