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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Year nav topic5|1629|science}} {{Science year nav|1629}} The year '''1629 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events. ==Botany== * In [[London]], [[John Parkinson (botanist)|John Parkinson]] publishes ''{{Proper name|Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris: a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permit to be noursed up}}''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cahill|first=Hugh|title=Book of the month: ''Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestri''|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomapril05.html|publisher=Information Services and Systems, [[King's College London]]|date=April 2005|accessdate=2007-11-30|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526185732/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomapril05.html|archivedate=26 May 2007}}</ref> ==Chemistry== * [[English people|English]] [[alchemist]] [[Arthur Dee]], court [[physician]] to [[Michael I of Russia]], compiles ''[[Fasciculus Chemicus]], Chymical Collections. Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, of the Secret Hermetick Science out of the choicest and most famous authors''. ==Medicine== * [[Italian plague of 1629β1631|Plague]] breaks out in [[Mantua]] and spreads to [[Milan]]. * In [[Toulouse]], [[Niall Γ GlacΓ‘in]] publishes ''Tractatus de Peste''. ==Technology== [[File:BracaDampturbin.jpg|thumb|Giovanni Branca's [[steam turbine]]]] * In [[Rome]], [[Giovanni Branca]] publishes ''{{Lang|it|Le Machine volume nuovo, et di molto artificio da fare effetti maravigliosi tanto Spiritali quanto di Animale Operatione, arichito di bellissime figure}}''. ==Births== * April 14 β [[Christiaan Huygens]], Dutch mathematician and physicist (died [[1695 in science|1695]]) * [[Laurent Cassegrain]], French priest and physicist (died [[1693 in science|1693]]) * [[Jan Commelijn]], Dutch botanist (died [[1692 in science|1692]]) * [[Christophe Glaser]], Swiss pharmacian (died [[1672 in science|1672]]) * [[Johann Glaser]], Swiss anatomist (died [[1675 in science|1675]]) * [[Agnes Block]], Dutch horticulturalist (died [[1704 in science|1704]]) ==Deaths== * July 13 β [[Caspar Bartholin the Elder]], Danish polymath, physician and theologian (born [[1585 in science|1585]]) * [[Giovanni Faber]], German papal doctor and botanist (born [[1574 in science|1574]]) ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1629 in science| ]] [[Category:17th century in science]] [[Category:1620s in science]]
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