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1627 In Science
The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * Johannes Kepler's ''Rudolphine Tables'' are published. Exploration * January – The Netherlands, Dutch ship '''t Gulden Zeepaert (schip, 1626), 't Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by François Thijssen, sails along the south coast of Australia. Medicine * Adriaan van den Spiegel's ' is published posthumously in Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio. * Gaspare Aselli's ' is published posthumously in Milan. Publications * Francis Bacon's '', or A Natural History'' and ''New Atlantis'' are published posthumously. Births * January 25 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist (died 1691 in science, 1691) * November 29 – John Ray, English people, English naturalist (died 1705 in science, 1705) Deaths * February 22 – Olivier van Noort Dutch people, Dutch circumnavigator (born 1558 in science, 1558) * July 20 – Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Icelandic mathematician and cartographer (born 1541 in sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
