1647 in science
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The year 1647 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- Johannes Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his Selenographia.[1]
Births
- March 20- Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (died 1724)[2]
- April 2 – Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717)[3]
- August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist (died c. 1712)[4]
- December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734)
- Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (died 1693)[5]
Deaths
- March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (born 1560)[6]
- October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)[7]
- Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562)[8]
References
- ↑ "Astronomical Images: Image database". www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ↑ "Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ↑ "Maria Sibylla Merian - Life, Facts, & Works". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ↑ Robinson, H. W. (1947). "Denis Papin (1647-1712)". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London: 47–50. JSTOR 531177.
- ↑ Cook, A. (2000). "Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig". Endeavour. 24 (1): 8–12. PMID 10824438.
- ↑ Mabbe, James (2013). James Mabbe, The Spanish Bawd. MHRA. p. 10. ISBN 9781907322099.
- ↑ "Evangelista Torricelli - Italian physicist and mathematician". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ↑ "Christen Sørensen Longomontanus". Worldcat. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
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