1629 in science
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The year 1629 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- In London, John Parkinson publishes {{Proper name|Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris: a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permit to be noursed up}}.{{cite web|last=Cahill|first=Hugh|title=Book of the month: Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestri|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomapril05.html|publisher=Information Services and Systems, King's College London|date=April 2005|accessdate=2007-11-30|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526185732/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomapril05.html|archivedate=26 May 2007}}
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 {{Lang|it|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 (died 1695)
- Laurent Cassegrain, French priest and physicist (died 1693)
- Jan Commelijn, Dutch botanist (died 1692)
- Christophe Glaser, Swiss pharmacian (died 1672)
- Johann Glaser, Swiss anatomist (died 1675)
- Agnes Block, Dutch horticulturalist (died 1704)
Deaths
- July 13 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish polymath, physician and theologian (born 1585)
- Giovanni Faber, German papal doctor and botanist (born 1574)