1623 in science
The year 1623 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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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.[1]
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 (including the designs of Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet).
Births
- June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)
- October 9 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit Sinologist and astronomer (died 1688)
- 12 July – Elizabeth Walker, English pharmacist (born 1690)
- Margaret Lucas, later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (died 1673)[2]
Deaths
- Michiel Coignet, Flemish engineer, cosmographer, mathematician and scientific instrument-maker (born 1549)
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gollark: So you're saying some of them can be automated? Excellent.
gollark: Well, *that* reduces the use a lot. How are they measuring "intention"? How is that defined?
gollark: I'm talking about querying spirits automatically, doing it manually would be irritating.
gollark: Hmm, I should probably have asked before, what information can they access? What kind of error rate?
References
- Ferrand, Jacques. Maladie d'amour, ou Mélancolie érotique.
- "Margaret Cavendish". The British Library. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
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