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The year 1618 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Technology

Astronomy

• One of Christoph Scheiner's pupils, another Jesuit geometer and astronomer, Johann Cysatus, becomes the first to make a telescopic study of a comet and gave the first description of the nucleus and coma of a comet.

Births

• April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist who discovered the diffraction of light (died 1663)

Deaths

• October 29 - Walter Raleigh, English explorer (born c.1562)