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Overview of the events of 1626 in science
The year 1626 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Physiology and medicine [ edit ] Posthumous publication of Adriaan van den Spiegel 's De formato foetu in Venice with illustrations by Giulio Casserio and including the first observation of milk in female breasts at birth.[ 1] February 11 – Pietro Cataldi , Italian mathematician (born 1548 )
April 9 – Francis Bacon , English philosopher and a founder of modern scientific research (born 1561 )
April 11 – Marin Getaldić or Ghetaldi , Ragusan politician, mathematician and physicist, contributed to the emergence of new algebra (born 1568 )
April 14 – Gaspare Aselli , Italian anatomist (born c. 1581 )
June 21 – Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt , Flemish -born humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist (born c. 1550 )
October 30 – Willebrord Snellius , Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as Snell's law (born 1580 )
December 10 – Edmund Gunter , English mathematician (born 1581 )
^ Needham, Joseph (1959). A History of Embryology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 99–100.
