Editing 1626 in science

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The year '''1626 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Physiology and medicine==
* Posthumous publication of [[Adriaan van den Spiegel]]'s ''De formato foetu'' in [[Venice]] with illustrations by Giulio Casserio and including the first observation of milk in female breasts at birth.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Joseph Needham|first=Joseph|last=Needham|title=A History of Embryology|edition=2nd|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1959|pages=99–100}}</ref>

==Technology==
* [[Cornelius Vermuyden]] commissioned to drain [[Hatfield Chase]] on the [[Isle of Axholme]] in [[Lincolnshire]], [[England]].

==Births==
* February 18 or 19 – [[Francesco Redi]], [[Italians|Italian]] [[physician]], [[biologist]] and poet (died [[1697 in science|1697]])
* March 1 – [[Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie]], [[French people|French]] [[horticulturalist]] (died [[1688 in science|1688]])
* April 7 – [[Ole Borch]] ({{Lang|la|Olaus Borrichius}}), [[Danes|Danish]] [[chemist]], physician, grammarian and poet (died [[1690 in science|1690]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Pietro Mengoli]], Italian [[mathematician]] (died [[1686 in science|1686]])

==Deaths==
* February 11 – [[Pietro Cataldi]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1548 in science|1548]])
* April 9 – [[Francis Bacon]], [[English people|English]] philosopher and a founder of modern scientific research (born [[1561 in science|1561]])
* April 11 – [[Marin Getaldić|Marin Getaldić or Ghetaldi]], [[Republic of Ragusa|Ragusan]] politician, mathematician and physicist, contributed to the emergence of [[new algebra]] (born [[1568 in science|1568]])
* April 14 – [[Gaspare Aselli]], Italian anatomist (born c. [[1581 in science|1581]])
* June 21 – [[Anselmus de Boodt|Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]]-born humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist (born c. [[1550 in science|1550]])
* October 30 – [[Willebrord Snellius]], Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as [[Snell's law]] (born [[1580 in science|1580]])
* December 10 – [[Edmund Gunter]], English mathematician (born [[1581 in science|1581]])

===Unknown date===
* [[Salomon de Caus]], French mechanical and hydraulic engineer (born [[1576 in science|1576]])

==References==
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