1614 in science
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The year 1614 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Mathematics
- Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ("Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms"), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark.{{cite book|url=http://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/napier/ademonstratiobookone.pdf|title=The Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms|first=John|last=Napier|translator-last1=Wright|translator-first1=Edward|translator-last2=Bruce|translator2-first=Ian|year=1614|publisher=17centurymaths.com|access-date=March 14, 2022|archive-date=22 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422184237/http://17centurymaths.com/contents/napier/ademonstratiobookone.pdf|url-status=live}} Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the Solar System.
Medicine
- Felix Plater gives a description of Dupuytren's contracture.{{cite journal|pmid=7498844|year=1995|last1=Belusa|first1=L.|last2=Selzer|first2=A.M.|last3=Partecke|first3=B.D.|title=Description of Dupuytren disease by the Basel physician and anatomist Felix Plater in 1614|volume=27|issue=5|pages=272–5|journal=Handchirurgie, Mikrochirurgie, plastische Chirurgie}}
- Sanctorius publishes De statica medicina, which will go through five editions in the following century.
Births
- February 14 – Bishop John Wilkins, English natural philosopher, co-founder of the Royal Society (died 1672)
Deaths
- July 28 – Felix Plater, Swiss physician (born 1536)
- Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese-born navigator (born 1565)
- William Lee, English-born inventor (born c. 1563)