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The year 1626 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Physiology and medicine

Posthumous publication of Adriaan van den Spiegel's De formato foetu in Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio and including the first observation of milk in female breasts at birth.^[1]

Technology

Cornelius Vermuyden commissioned to drain Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire, England.

Births

February 18 or 19 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician, biologist and poet (died 1697)
March 1 – Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, French horticulturalist (died 1688)
April 7 – Ole Borch (Olaus Borrichius), Danish chemist, physician, grammarian and poet (died 1690)
approx. date – Pietro Mengoli, Italian mathematician (died 1686)

Deaths

February 11 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (born 1548)
April 9 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher and a founder of modern scientific research (born 1561)
April 11 – Marin Getaldić or Ghetaldi, Ragusan politician, mathematician and physicist, contributed to the emergence of new algebra (born 1568)
April 14 – Gaspare Aselli, Italian anatomist (born c. 1581)
June 21 – Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, Flemish-born humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist (born c. 1550)
October 30 – Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as Snell's law (born 1580)
December 10 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (born 1581)

Unknown date

Salomon de Caus, French mechanical and hydraulic engineer (born 1576)

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1626 (MDCXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1626th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 626th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1626, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1707 (MDCCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1707th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 707th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1707, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Year 1529 (MDXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

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References

↑ Needham, Joseph (1959). A History of Embryology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 99–100.

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[1] Needham, Joseph (1959). A History of Embryology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 99–100.

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