1629 in science

The year 1629 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

 * In London, John Parkinson publishes .

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 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)