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{{Year nav topic5|1620|science}}The year 1620 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy- The work of Copernicus (died 1543) is edited and released, as directed by the Congregation of the Index (reading forbidden in March 1616): nine sentences, which state the heliocentric system as certain, are either omitted or changed.
Cartography- The atlas Atlante geografico d'Italia, compiled by Giovanni Antonio Magini, is published posthumously.
Chemistry- The scientific method of reasoning is expounded by Francis Bacon in his Novum Organum.
Earth sciences- Francis Bacon notices the jigsaw fit of the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
Medicine- Nicholas Habicot, surgeon to the Duke of Nemours, publishes a report of four successful "bronchotomies" which he has performed; these include the first recorded case of a tracheotomy for the removal of a thrombus and the first pediatric tracheotomy, to extract a foreign body from a 14-year-old's esophagus.[1]
Technology- May 17 – The first carousel is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey).
- Cornelis Drebbel builds the first navigable submarine, in England.[2][3]
Births- April? – William Brouncker, Anglo-Irish mathematician (died 1684)
- July 21 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (died 1682)
- September 25 – François Bernier, French physician and traveller (died 1688)
- Ralph Bathurst, English theologian, physician and academic (died 1704)
- Bernard de Gomme, Dutch-born military engineer (died 1685)
- Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (died 1684)
- Robert Morison, Scottish botanist and taxonomist (died 1683)
Deaths- Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist (born c. 1548)
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Habicot|first=Nicholas|title=Question chirurgicale par laquelle il est démonstré que le chirurgien doit assurément practiquer l'operation de la bronchotomie, vulgairement dicte laryngotomie, ou perforation de la fluste ou du polmon|publisher=Corrozet|location=Paris|year=1620}}
2. ^{{cite book|authorlink=Robert Davis (inventor)|last=Davis|first=R. H.|title=Deep Diving and Submarine Operations|year=1955|edition=6th|publisher=Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd|location=Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey|page=693}}
3. ^{{cite journal|last=Acott|first=C.|title=A brief history of diving and decompression illness|journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal|volume=29|issue=2|year=1999|issn=0813-1988|oclc=16986801|url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004|accessdate=2009-03-17}}
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