1625 in science

The year 1625 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Chemistry

 * First description of hydrogen by Johann Baptista van Helmont. First to use the word "gas".
 * Johann Rudolf Glauber discovers sodium sulfate (sal mirabilis or "Glauber's salt", used as a laxative) in Austrian spring water.

Births

 * June 8 – Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer (died 1712)
 * March 25 – John Collins, English mathematician (died 1683)
 * August 13 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish scientist (died 1698)
 * December 16 – Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (died 1699)
 * December 20 – David Gregory, Scottish physician and inventor (died 1720)
 * Samuel Morland, English inventor (died 1695)

Deaths

 * March 7 – Johann Bayer, German uranographer (born 1572)
 * April 7 – Adriaan van den Spiegel, Flemish-born anatomist and botanist (born 1578)
 * May 6 – George Bruce of Carnock, Scottish coal mining engineer (born c.1550)
 * Ferrante Imperato, Neapolitan natural historian (born 1550)
 * Willem Schouten, Dutch navigator, died at sea (born c. 1567)