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1644 in science

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The year 1644 AD in science and technology involved several significant events in mathematics, technology, and medicine.

Mathematics

  • The Basel problem is posed by Pietro Mengoli, and will puzzle mathematicians until solved by Leonhard Euler in 1735.

Technology

  • Jacob van Eyck collaborates with the bellfounding duo Pieter and François Hemony to create the first tuned carillon in Zutphen.

Publications

  • Jan Baptist van Helmont publishes Dageraad ofte Nieuwe Opkomst der Geneeskunst ("Daybreak, or the New Rise of Medicine").

Births

  • 25 September – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer who makes the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light (died 1710)

Deaths

  • 2 July – William Gascoigne, English scientist (born 1610)
  • 30 December – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (born 1580)

References

References

  1. (2007). "How Euler Did It". MAA.
  2. Lehr, André. (1991). "The Art of the Carillon in the Low Countries". Lannoo.
  3. "Ole Rømer - Danish astronomer".
  4. (2009). "The Sun Recorded Through History". Springer Science & Business Media.
  5. "Jan Baptista van Helmont - Belgian scientist".
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