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The year 1628 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Medicine and physiology

  • William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation in Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (published in Frankfurt).

Births

  • March 10 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physiologist (died 1694)
  • April 23 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (died 1704)
  • Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (died 1697)

Deaths

  • June 8 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and polymath (born 1547)
  • Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar-bureaucrat (born 1563)

References