1625 in science

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The year 1625 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Chemistry

First description of hydrogen by Johann Baptista van Helmont. First to use the word "gas".
Johann Rudolf Glauber discovers sodium sulfate (sal mirabilis or "Glauber's salt", used as a laxative) in Austrian spring water.[1]

June 8 – Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer (died 1712)
March 25 – John Collins, English mathematician (died 1683)
August 13 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish scientist (died 1698)
December 16 – Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (died 1699)
December 20 – David Gregory, Scottish physician and inventor (died 1720)
Samuel Morland, English inventor (died 1695)

March 7 – Johann Bayer, German uranographer (born 1572)
April 7 – Adriaan van den Spiegel, Flemish-born anatomist and botanist (born 1578)
May 6 – George Bruce of Carnock, Scottish coal mining engineer (born c.1550)
Ferrante Imperato, Neapolitan natural historian (born 1550)
Willem Schouten, Dutch navigator, died at sea (born c. 1567)

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gollark: Maybe we should improve the general standard of it then.

gollark: I'm challenging, generally, your "who cares about code quality" stance.

gollark: Things can work while being awful. See: 3d6's personal projects.

gollark: If code is not good and nice and all that, then nobody can or will want to develop on it.

Westfall, Richard S. (1995). "Glauber, Johann Rudolf". The Galileo Project. Retrieved 2011-10-17.

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