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The year '''1625 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Chemistry==
* First description of hydrogen by [[Jan Baptist van Helmont|Johann Baptista van Helmont]]. First to use the word "gas".
* [[Johann Rudolf Glauber]] discovers [[sodium sulfate]] (''sal mirabilis'' or "Glauber's salt", used as a [[laxative]]) in [[Austria]]n spring water.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glauber.html|title=Glauber, Johann Rudolf|first=Richard S.|last=Westfall|publisher=The Galileo Project|year=1995|accessdate=2011-10-17}}</ref>

==Births==
* June 8 – [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini|Giovanni Cassini]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1712 in science|1712]])
* March 25 – [[John Collins (mathematician)|John Collins]], [[English people|English]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1683 in science|1683]])
* August 13 – [[Rasmus Bartholin]], [[Danes|Danish]] scientist (died [[1698 in science|1698]])
* December 16 – [[Erhard Weigel]], [[German people|German]] mathematician and scientific populariser (died [[1699 in science|1699]])
* December 20 – [[David Gregory (physician)|David Gregory]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[physician]] and inventor (died [[1720 in science|1720]])
* [[Samuel Morland]], English inventor (died [[1695 in science|1695]])

==Deaths==
* March 7 – [[Johann Bayer]], German [[Star cartography|uranographer]] (born [[1572 in science|1572]])
* April 7 – [[Adriaan van den Spiegel]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]]-born [[anatomist]] and [[botanist]] (born [[1578 in science|1578]])
* May 6 – [[George Bruce of Carnock]], Scottish coal mining engineer (born c.1550)
* [[Ferrante Imperato]], [[Naples|Neapolitan]] [[natural historian]] (born [[1550 in science|1550]])
* [[Willem Schouten]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] navigator, died at sea (born c. [[1567 in science|1567]])

==References==
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[[Category:1625]]
[[Category:17th century in science]]
[[Category:1620s in science]]