// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 1613 a big year? It had a lot of numbers.
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The year 1613 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
[edit]- Galileo Galilei publishes Letters on Sunspots, the first major work on the topic.
Paleontology
[edit]- Bones, probably of an elephant, are found in France but at first interpreted to belong to a giant human.
Technology
[edit]- September 29 – The New River (engineered by Sir Hugh Myddelton) is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.[1]
Births
[edit]- March 6 – Stjepan Gradić, Ragusan polymath (died 1683)
- September 25 – Claude Perrault, French architect and physicist (died 1688)
Deaths
[edit]- June 16 – Jakob Christmann, German orientalist and astronomer (born 1554)
- July 2 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist (born 1561)
- August 25 – David Gans, German Jewish mathematician and astronomer (born 1541)
- Mathew Baker, English shipwright (born 1530)
- Johann Bauhin, Swiss physician and botanist (born 1541)
- Jacques Guillemeau, French surgeon (born 1550)
References
[edit]- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.