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<h2 id="astronomy">Astronomy</h2> <ul><li>The work of <a href="/facts/Nicolaus_Copernicus/RvzhHNQR">Copernicus</a> (died <a href="/facts/1543_in_science/q304DXQ6">1543</a>) is edited and released, as directed by the Congregation of the <a href="/facts/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum/DEcvFQpm">Index</a> (reading forbidden in March <a href="/facts/1616_in_science/29u9ADod">1616</a>): nine sentences, which state the <a href="/facts/Heliocentric_system/4hoCMs7P">heliocentric system</a> as certain, are either omitted or changed.</li></ul> <h2 id="cartography">Cartography</h2> <ul><li>The <a href="/facts/Atlas/0P16fANt">atlas</a> <i>Atlante geografico d'Italia</i>, compiled by <a href="/facts/Giovanni_Antonio_Magini/Ak2upWcg">Giovanni Antonio Magini</a>, is published posthumously.</li></ul> <h2 id="chemistry">Chemistry</h2> <ul><li>The scientific method of reasoning is expounded by <a href="/facts/Francis_Bacon_(philosopher)/qMJoNMRB">Francis Bacon</a> in his <i><a href="/facts/Novum_Organum/EfxQ8zCG">Novum Organum</a></i>.</li></ul> <h2 id="earth-sciences">Earth sciences</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Francis_Bacon_(philosopher)/qMJoNMRB">Francis Bacon</a> notices the jigsaw fit of the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean.</li></ul> <h2 id="medicine">Medicine</h2> <ul><li>Nicholas Habicot, surgeon to the <a href="/facts/Duke_of_Nemours/CATxPmRK">Duke of Nemours</a>, publishes a report of four successful "<a href="/facts/History_of_tracheal_intubation/7FCKl5xC">bronchotomies</a>" which he has performed; these include the first recorded case of a <a href="/facts/Tracheotomy/wV3NCaly">tracheotomy</a> for the removal of a <a href="/facts/Thrombus/vH6FDIQG">thrombus</a> and the first <a href="/facts/Pediatrics/hnkMfLeg">pediatric</a> tracheotomy, to extract a foreign body from a 14-year-old's <a href="/facts/Esophagus/XWa7WoWn">esophagus</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li>May 17 – The first <a href="/facts/Carousel/FSs5Nz0H">carousel</a> is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, <a href="/facts/Turkey/KIYAWAs0">Turkey</a>).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Cornelis_Drebbel/deRpkuPH">Cornelis Drebbel</a> builds the first navigable <a href="/facts/Submarine/6fhcAKHV">submarine</a>, in England.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>April? – <a href="/facts/William_Brouncker%2c_2nd_Viscount_Brouncker/r2cdq0lG">William Brouncker</a>, <a href="/facts/Anglo-Irish/6pkxMTxU">Anglo-Irish</a> <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1684_in_science/2w6a7Vwb">1684</a>)</li> <li>July 21 – <a href="/facts/Jean_Picard/bEnYtFeU">Jean Picard</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1682_in_science/4gdnrGDJ">1682</a>)</li> <li>September 25 – <a href="/facts/Fran%25C3%25A7ois_Bernier/rq5hSyaq">François Bernier</a>, French physician and traveller (died <a href="/facts/1688_in_science/onmSJjwe">1688</a>)</li> <li>December 23 - <a href="/facts/Johann_Jakob_Wepfer/4gf3T2aB">Johann Jakob Wepfer</a>, <a href="/facts/Swiss_people/3ecWX2K6">Swiss</a> <a href="/facts/Pathologist/U9b18LJG">pathologist</a> and <a href="/facts/Pharmacologist/4Rx8s7Ie">pharmacologist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1695_in_science/Pt7MA1t5">1695</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Ralph_Bathurst/S7TNqGST">Ralph Bathurst</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> theologian, physician and academic (died <a href="/facts/1704_in_science/1uIutsBc">1704</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Bernard_de_Gomme/tsfgt982">Bernard de Gomme</a>, <a href="/facts/Dutch_Republic/PlxBXbKF">Dutch</a>-born <a href="/facts/Military_engineer/dzAR2FJI">military engineer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1685_in_science/yK9t1ett">1685</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Edme_Mariotte/NRfpkQIc">Edme Mariotte</a>, French <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> and priest (died 1684)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Robert_Morison/hvX7yl57">Robert Morison</a>, <a href="/facts/Scottish_people/0rp2bd12">Scottish</a> <a href="/facts/Botanist/PaIRoxnb">botanist</a> and <a href="/facts/Taxonomist/Qkg8wuyw">taxonomist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1683_in_science/wD74h3mx">1683</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Simon_Stevin/Nb7y9QvD">Simon Stevin</a>, <a href="/facts/Flemish_people/MIyUKkDM">Flemish</a> scientist (born c. <a href="/facts/1548_in_science/kAjQY6dq">1548</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Habicot, Nicholas (1620). Question chirurgicale par laquelle il est démonstré que le chirurgien doit assurément practiquer l'operation de la bronchotomie, vulgairement dicte laryngotomie, ou perforation de la fluste ou du polmon. Paris: Corrozet. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Davis, R. H. (1955). Deep Diving and Submarine Operations (6th ed.). Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey: Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd. p. 693. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Davis_(inventor)" target="_blank">/wiki/Robert_Davis_(inventor)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Acott, C. (1999). "A brief history of diving and decompression illness". South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal. 29 (2). ISSN 0813-1988. OCLC 16986801. Archived from the original on 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2009-03-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110905152645/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110905152645/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>