1613 in science

Overview of the events of 1613 in science

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* Dinosaurs' extinction

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The year 1613 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Astronomy

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* Galileo Galilei publishes Letters on Sunspots, the first major work on the topic.

## Paleontology

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* Bones, probably of an elephant, are found in France but at first interpreted to belong to a giant human.

## Technology

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* September 29 – The New River (engineered by Sir Hugh Myddelton) is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.[1]

## Births

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* March 6 – Stjepan Gradić, Ragusan polymath (died 1683)
* September 25 – Claude Perrault, French architect and physicist (died 1688)

## Deaths

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* June 16 – Jakob Christmann, German orientalist and astronomer (born 1554)
* July 2 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist (born 1561)
* August 25 – David Gans, German Jewish mathematician and astronomer (born 1541)
* Mathew Baker, English shipwright (born 1530)
* Johann Bauhin, Swiss physician and botanist (born 1541)
* Jacques Guillemeau, French surgeon (born 1550)

## References

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1. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

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