1613 in science
The year 1613 in science and technology involved some significant events.Astronomy
- Galileo Galilei publishes Letters on Sunspots, the first major work on the topic.
Paleontology
- Bones, probably of an elephant, are found in France but at first interpreted to belong to a giant human.
Technology
- September 29 – The New River is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.
Births
- September 25 – Claude Perrault, French architect and physicist
Deaths
- June 16 – Jakob Christmann, German orientalist and astronomer
- July 2 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist
- August 25 – David Gans, German Jewish mathematician and astronomer
- Mathew Baker, English shipwright
- Johann Bauhin, Swiss physician and botanist
- Jacques Guillemeau, French surgeon
