1614 in science

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

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Mathematics

• Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ("Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms"), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark.^[1] Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the Solar System.

Medicine

• Felix Plater gives a description of Dupuytren's contracture.^[2]
• Sanctorius publishes De statica medicina, which will go through five editions in the following century.

Births

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

Deaths

• 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)