- 1618 in science
The year 1618 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.Technology
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Astronomy
* One of
Christoph Scheiner 's pupils, another Jesuit geometer andastronomer ,Johann Cysatus , becomes the first to make a telescopic study of acomet and gave the first description of the nucleus and coma of a comet.Births
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April 2 -Francesco Maria Grimaldi , Italian physicist who discovered the diffraction of light (died 1663)Deaths
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October 29 -Walter Raleigh , English explorer (born c.1562 )
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