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<h2 id="mathematics">Mathematics</h2> <ul><li>The <a href="/facts/Slide_rule/KzIEdWad">slide rule</a> is invented by <a href="/facts/William_Oughtred/2cyf4A1n">William Oughtred</a> (<a href="/facts/1574_in_science/uxGBsD3T">1574</a>–<a href="/facts/1660_in_science/trQ0747T">1660</a>), an English mathematician, and later becomes the calculating tool of choice until the <a href="/facts/Electronic_calculator/eeLfRS8L">electronic calculator</a> takes over in the early 1970s.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="physiology-and-medicine">Physiology and medicine</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Gaspare_Aselli/EH7egqXa">Gaspare Aselli</a> discovers the <a href="/facts/Lacteal_vessels/Be2tnRhR">lacteal vessels</a> of the <a href="/facts/Lymphatic_system/yw5QLgMT">lymphatic system</a>.<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> <li><a href="/facts/Flemish_people/MIyUKkDM">Flemish</a> anatomist Giulio Casserio publishes <i>Nova anatomia</i> in <a href="/facts/Frankfurt/Pw4Xj9A4">Frankfurt</a>, containing clear <a href="/facts/Copperplate_engraving/UGGoXppU">copperplate engravings</a> of the <a href="/facts/Human_anatomy/B3jf4a8o">human anatomy</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li>February 22 – An <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">English</a> <a href="/facts/Patent/LjT2bG3A">patent</a> is granted for <a href="/facts/Dud_Dudley/0DVoFFLr">Dud Dudley</a>'s process for <a href="/facts/Smelting/Ghdvhlga">smelting</a> <a href="/facts/Iron_ore/rQMEvgMh">iron ore</a> with <a href="/facts/Coke_(fuel)/vD8xjd0m">coke</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>January 28 – <a href="/facts/Adrien_Auzout/nr6SCd5I">Adrien Auzout</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1691_in_science/9KSJYwtX">1691</a>)</li> <li>March 10 – <a href="/facts/Johann_Rahn/NxhDArK6">Johann Rahn</a>, <a href="/facts/Swiss_people/3ecWX2K6">Swiss</a> <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1676_in_science/bEGGA48D">1676</a>)</li> <li>April 5 – <a href="/facts/Vincenzo_Viviani/R515cfmh">Vincenzo Viviani</a>, <a href="/facts/Italians/dsdUeJ1n">Italian</a> mathematician and scientist (died <a href="/facts/1703_in_science/sETyW0ML">1703</a>)</li> <li><i>undated</i> – <a href="/facts/Jean_Pecquet/6QBGNaqE">Jean Pecquet</a>, French <a href="/facts/Anatomist/p8TCWJuV">anatomist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1674_in_science/yLcB1n5Q">1674</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 23 – <a href="/facts/William_Baffin/HEvnRRBd">William Baffin</a>, English explorer and navigator (born <a href="/facts/1584_in_science/WIrBhUxR">1584</a>)</li> <li>February 19 – Sir <a href="/facts/Henry_Savile_(Bible_translator)/rEdM47gR">Henry Savile</a>, English polymath and benefactor (born <a href="/facts/1549_in_science/IDWnEl7Y">1549</a>)</li> <li>April 13 – <a href="/facts/Katharina_Kepler/Ce5lsp2V">Katharina Kepler</a>, German healer and mother of <a href="/facts/Johannes_Kepler/wk6GTN3C">Johannes Kepler</a> (born <a href="/facts/1546_in_science/BIRjXfpb">1546</a>)</li> <li>May 15 – <a href="/facts/Petrus_Plancius/4BHvuuKX">Petrus Plancius</a>, <a href="/facts/Flemish_people/MIyUKkDM">Flemish</a> <a href="/facts/Cartographer/8YdDAAeX">cartographer</a> and <a href="/facts/Cosmographer/FNI8UTrS">cosmographer</a> (born <a href="/facts/1552_in_science/damIU0pV">1552</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Oughtred Society Slide Rule History". The Oughtred Society. 2007-09-15. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-29. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071221021607/http://www.oughtred.org/history.shtml" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20071221021607/http://www.oughtred.org/history.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>De lactibus sive Lacteis venis. Milan. 1627. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Premuda, Loris (1970). "Aselli, Gaspare". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 315–316. ISBN 0-684-10114-9. <a href="0-684-10114-9" target="_blank">0-684-10114-9</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Bergman, Ronald A.; Afifi, Adel K. (2016). ANATOMY: An encyclopedic reference to the language of anatomy and neuroanatomy. It provides the fascinating origin of terms and biographies of anatomists/physicians who originated them. Outskirts Press. p. 247. ISBN 9781478758211. <a href="9781478758211" target="_blank">9781478758211</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>