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1625 in science
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
Austria
n spring water.
Births
June 8 âÂÂ
Giovanni Cassini
,
Italian
astronomer
(died
1712
)
March 25 âÂÂ
John Collins
,
English
mathematician
(died
1683
)
August 13 âÂÂ
Rasmus Bartholin
,
Danish
scientist (died
1698
)
December 16 âÂÂ
Erhard Weigel
,
German
mathematician and scientific populariser (died
1699
)
December 20 âÂÂ
David Gregory
,
Scottish
physician
and inventor (died
1720
)
Samuel Morland
, English inventor (died
1695
)
Deaths
March 7 âÂÂ
Johann Bayer
, German
uranographer
(born
1572
)
April 7 âÂÂ
Adriaan van den Spiegel
,
Flemish
-born
anatomist
and
botanist
(born
1578
)
May 6 âÂÂ
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
)
References