1624 in science

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The year 1624 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Jakob Bartsch's star atlas^[1] is the first to depict six recently discovered constellations, including Camelopardalis around the North Star.

July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.

Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
Edmund Gunter produces The description and use of sector, the cross-staffe, and other instruments for such as are studious of mathematical practise, notable for being published in English as a practical text.^[2]

Adriaan van den Spiegel, in De semitertiana libri quatuor, gives the first comprehensive description of malaria.

12 September – Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates his third submarine on the River Thames in England.
The 15-arch Berwick Bridge in Great Britain by James Burrell is opened to traffic.

25 May – The Parliament of England passes the Statute of Monopolies, requiring patent monopolies to show novelty.^[3]
The Parlement of France passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.^[4]

10 September – Thomas Sydenham, English physician, the first person to recommend the use of quinine for relieving symptoms of malaria (died 1689)

Giuseppe Biancani, Italian astronomer (born 1566)
5 December – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician who developed an important early plant classification system (born 1560)
26 December – Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)^[5]

^ Usus astronomicus planisphaerii stellati
^ Wilson, Robin (16 November 2005). "Who invented the calculus? – and other 17th century topics". London: Gresham College. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
^ Bloxam, G. A. (1957). "Letters Patent for Inventions: their Use and Misuse". Journal of Industrial Economics. 5 (3). Wiley. ISSN 0022-1821.
^ "René Descartes". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
^ "Simon Marius | German astronomer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 29 June 2020.