1626 in science
The year 1626 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Physiology and medicine
- 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.
Technology
- Cornelius Vermuyden commissioned to drain Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire, England.
Births
- February 18 or 19 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician, biologist and poet
- March 1 – Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, French horticulturalist
- April 7 – Ole Borch, Danish chemist, physician, grammarian and poet approx. date – Pietro Mengoli, Italian mathematician
Deaths
- February 11 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician
- April 9 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher and a founder of modern scientific research
- April 11 – Marin Getaldić or Ghetaldi, Ragusan politician, mathematician and physicist, contributed to the emergence of new algebra
- April 14 – Gaspare Aselli, Italian anatomist
- June 21 – Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, Flemish-born humanist, priest, physician and mineralogist
- October 30 – Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as Snell's law
- December 10 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician