1623 in philosophy

1623 in philosophy

Events

• Galileo Galilei lays down the foundations of the scientific method.^[1]

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics and its characters are triangles and circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one wanders about in a dark labyrinth.

— Galileo^[2]

Publications

• Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623)^[3]
• Galileo Galilei, The Assayer (Il Saggiatore) (1623)^[4]
• Patrick Scot, The Tillage of Light (1623)^[5]

Births

• May 26 - William Petty (died 1687)
• June 19 - Blaise Pascal (died 1662)

Deaths

• 16 November - Francisco Sanches (born 1550)