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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2013}}{{Year nav topic5|1624|science}}The year 1624 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy- Jakob Bartsch's star atlas[1] is the first to depict six recently-discovered constellations, including Camelopardalis around the North Star.
Chemistry- Cornelis Drebbel makes discoveries concerning gases.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}}
Exploration- July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
Mathematics- 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.[2]
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.[3]
- The Parlement of France passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.[4]
Births- 10 September – Thomas Sydenham, English physician, the first person to recommend the use of quinine for relieving symptoms of malaria (died 1689)
Deaths- Giuseppe Biancani, Italian astronomer (born 1566)
- 5 December – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician who developed an important early plant classification system (born 1560)
- 26 December – Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)
References1. ^Usus astronomicus planisphaerii stellati 2. ^{{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|authorlink=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}} 3. ^{{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}} 4. ^{{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 Online|accessdate=2009-10-11}}
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