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

Astronomy

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

Exploration

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

Mathematics

  • 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.

Medicine

  • Adriaan van den Spiegel, in ', gives the first comprehensive description of malaria.

Technology

  • 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.

Events

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

Births

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

Deaths

  • 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)

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