thumb | right | alt=Two lectures by Pietro Antonio Cataldi given in the Academy being erected where it is shown how to find the size of rectilinear surfaces, Bologna, 1613. | Two lectures by Pietro Antonio Cataldi given in the Academy being erected where it is shown how to find the size of rectilinear surfaces, Bologna, 1613.
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The year 1613 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Galileo Galilei publishes Letters on Sunspots, the first major work on the topic.
Paleontology
- Bones, probably of an elephant, are found in France but at first interpreted to belong to a giant human.
Technology
- September 29 – The New River (engineered by Sir Hugh Myddelton) is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.
Births
- March 6 – Stjepan Gradić, Ragusan polymath (died 1683)
- September 25 – Claude Perrault, French architect and physicist (died 1688)
Deaths
- 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)