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1623 in science
The year
1623 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant
events
.
Biology
Apple orchard
at
Grönsö Manor
in
Sweden
planted
; it will still be productive into the
21st century
.
Psychology
Erotomania
is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
Technology
Wilhelm Schickard
draws a
calculating
clock on a letter to
Kepler
. This will be the first of five unsuccessful
attempts
at designing a
direct
entry
calculating clock in the
17th century
.
Births
June 19
–
Blaise Pascal
,
French
mathematician
and
physicist
October 9
–
Ferdinand Verbiest
,
Flemish
Jesuit
Sinologist
and
astronomer
12 July
-
Elizabeth Walker
,
English
pharmacist
Margaret Lucas
,
later
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
, English
natural philosopher
Deaths
Michiel Coignet
, Flemish
engineer
,
cosmographer
, mathematician and scientific instrument-maker