The year 1620 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
The work of Copernicus (died 1543) is edited and released, as directed by the Congregation of the Index (reading forbidden in March 1616): nine sentences, which state the heliocentric system as certain, are either omitted or changed.
The scientific method of reasoning is expounded by Francis Bacon in his Novum Organum.
Earth sciences
Francis Bacon notices the jigsaw fit of the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
Medicine
Nicholas Habicot, surgeon to the Duke of Nemours, publishes a report of four successful "bronchotomies" which he has performed; these include the first recorded case of a tracheotomy for the removal of a thrombus and the first pediatric tracheotomy, to extract a foreign body from a 14-year-old's esophagus.[1]
Technology
May 17 – The first carousel is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey).
Cornelis Drebbel builds the first navigable submarine, in England.[2][3]
^Habicot, Nicholas (1620). Question chirurgicale par laquelle il est démonstré que le chirurgien doit assurément practiquer l'operation de la bronchotomie, vulgairement dicte laryngotomie, ou perforation de la fluste ou du polmon. Paris: Corrozet.
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