1629 in science
The year 1629 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- In London, John Parkinson publishes .
Chemistry
- English alchemist Arthur Dee, court physician to Michael I of Russia, compiles Fasciculus Chemicus, Chymical Collections. Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, of the Secret Hermetick Science out of the choicest and most famous authors.
Medicine
- Plague breaks out in Mantua and spreads to Milan.
- In Toulouse, Niall Ó Glacáin publishes Tractatus de Peste.
Technology
- In Rome, Giovanni Branca publishes Le Machine volume nuovo, et di molto artificio da fare effetti maravigliosi tanto Spiritali quanto di Animale Operatione, arichito di bellissime figure.
Births
- April 14 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist
- Laurent Cassegrain, French priest and physicist
- Jan Commelijn, Dutch botanist
- Christophe Glaser, Swiss pharmacian
- Johann Glaser, Swiss anatomist
- Agnes Block, Dutch horticulturalist
Deaths
- July 13 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish polymath, physician and theologian
- Giovanni Faber, German papal doctor and botanist