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<h2 id="medicine">Medicine</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Nicolaes_Tulp/6xvLbLJo">Nicolaes Tulp</a>'s <i><a href="/facts/Observationes_Medicae_(Tulp)/paKVhzsE">Observationes Medicae</a></i> is published in <a href="/facts/Amsterdam/Xdd393bz">Amsterdam</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul><li>The sealed <a href="/facts/Thermometer/almVTBxI">thermometer</a> is developed with <a href="/facts/Ferdinand_II,_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany/AgTw9pCQ">Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany</a>, using a glass tube containing <a href="/facts/Ethanol/3lCLfBSP">alcohol</a>, which freezes well below the freezing point of water.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Samuel_Winslow_(patentee)/TRukFcBv">Samuel Winslow</a> is granted the first <a href="/facts/Patent/LjT2bG3A">patent</a> in <a href="/facts/North_America/djNjCQIl">North America</a> by the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_General_Court/usVXnbRS">Massachusetts General Court</a> for a new <a href="/facts/Saltmaking/SCplalQ3">saltmaking</a> process.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>March – <a href="/facts/Menno_van_Coehoorn/Ae4xUsVs">Menno van Coehoorn</a>, <a href="/facts/Netherlands/y8xn5stT">Dutch</a> <a href="/facts/Military_engineer/dzAR2FJI">military engineer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1704_in_science/1uIutsBc">1704</a>)</li> <li>July 30 – <a href="/facts/Regnier_de_Graaf/sfwmb4jR">Regnier de Graaf</a>, Dutch physician and anatomist who discovered the ovarian follicles, which were later named Graafian follicles (died <a href="/facts/1673_in_science/JhLlo14l">1673</a>)</li> <li>August 2 – <a href="/facts/Jacob_Bobart_the_Younger/73arHhB2">Jacob Bobart the Younger</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Botanist/PaIRoxnb">botanist</a> (died 1719)</li> <li>September 26 – <a href="/facts/Nehemiah_Grew/GTY6btYy">Nehemiah Grew</a>, English botanist and <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> who makes some of the early microscopical observations of plants (died <a href="/facts/1712_in_science/FWMoXTLt">1712</a>)</li> <li>October 28 – <a href="/facts/Philip_Skippon_(1641%E2%80%931691)/3LehA6e0">Sir Philip Skippon</a>, English traveller, naturalist and Member of Parliament (died <a href="/facts/1691_in_science/9KSJYwtX">1691</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 3 – <a href="/facts/Jeremiah_Horrocks/7xkuVCCB">Jeremiah Horrocks</a>, English <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (born <a href="/facts/1618_in_science/AYIb2sXT">1618</a>)</li> <li>March 8 – <a href="/facts/Xu_Xiake/N8GmJe1y">Xu Xiake</a>, <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">Chinese</a> explorer and geographer (born <a href="/facts/1587_in_science/AXAeNc06">1587</a>)</li> <li>July 5 – <a href="/facts/Simon_Baskerville/mpd9grIp">Simon Baskerville</a>, English <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> (born <a href="/facts/1574_in_science/uxGBsD3T">1574</a>)</li> <li>August 31 – <a href="/facts/Guy_de_La_Brosse/fdrfARFY">Guy de La Brosse</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> physician and <a href="/facts/Botanist/PaIRoxnb">botanist</a> (born c. <a href="/facts/1586_in_science/RpeqKoxP">1586</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Cortada, James W. (1998). "Rise of the knowledge worker". Resources for the Knowledge-based Economy. Knowledge Reader Series. Vol. 8. Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 141. ISBN 0-7506-7058-4. <a href="0-7506-7058-4" target="_blank">0-7506-7058-4</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>