1623 in science

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The year 1623 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Psychology

• Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.^[1]

Technology

• Wilhelm Schickard draws a calculating clock on a letter to Kepler. This will be the first of five unsuccessful attempts at designing a direct entry calculating clock in the 17th century (including the designs of Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet)).^[2]

Births

• June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)
• October 9 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit Sinologist and astronomer (died 1688)
• probable date – Margaret Lucas, later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (died 1673)

Deaths

• Michiel Coignet, Flemish engineer, cosmographer, mathematician and scientific instrument-maker (born 1549)

References

1. Ferrand, Jacques. Maladie d'amour, ou Mélancolie érotique.
2. Please see Mechanical calculator#Calculating clocks: unsuccessful mechanical calculators