See also: 1623 in science, other events of 1624, 1625 in science and the list of years in science.
Births Thomas Sydenham, English physician, the first person to recommend the use of quinine for relieving symptoms of malaria (died 1689) Deaths December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician who developed an important early plant classification system (born 1560) December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)
