1614 in science

Mathematics

• Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes , outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the solar system.

  Medicine

• Felix Plater gives a description of Dupuytren's contracture.
• Sanctorius publishes De statica medicina, which will go through five editions in the following century.

  Births

• February 14 – Bishop John Wilkins, English natural philosopher, co-founder of the Royal Society

  Deaths

• July 28 – Felix Plater, Swiss physician
• Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese-born navigator
• William Lee, English-born inventor