1629 in science

Botany

• In London, John Parkinson publishes .

  Chemistry

• 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

• Plague breaks out in Mantua and spreads to Milan.
• In Toulouse, Niall Ó Glacáin publishes Tractatus de Peste.

  Technology

• In Rome, Giovanni Branca publishes 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 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist
• Laurent Cassegrain, French priest and physicist
• Jan Commelijn, Dutch botanist
• Christophe Glaser, Swiss pharmacian
• Johann Glaser, Swiss anatomist
• Agnes Block, Dutch horticulturalist

  Deaths

• July 13 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish polymath, physician and theologian
• Giovanni Faber, German papal doctor and botanist