1614 in science

The year 1614 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

• decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the Solar System
  .

• Felix Plater gives a description of Dupuytren's contracture.^[1]
• Sanctorius
  publishes De statica medicina, which will go through five editions in the following century.

• February 14 – Bishop
  natural philosopher, co-founder of the Royal Society (died 1672
  )

• July 28 –
  Felix Plater, Swiss physician (born 1536
  )
• Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese-born navigator (born 1565)
• William Lee, English-born inventor (born c. 1563)

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