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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, sive Lunae descriptio (Danzig).

Births

  • January 17 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (died 1693)
  • March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (died 1724)
  • April 2 – Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717)
  • August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist (died c. 1712)
  • December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734)

Deaths

  • March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (born 1560)
  • October 8 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562)
  • October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)

References

References

  1. "Astronomical Images: Image database".
  2. (2000). "Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig". Endeavour.
  3. "Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724)".
  4. "Maria Sibylla Merian – Life, Facts, & Works".
  5. (1947). "Denis Papin (1647-1712)". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London.
  6. (2013). "James Mabbe, The Spanish Bawd". MHRA.
  7. "Christen Sørensen Longomontanus".
  8. "Evangelista Torricelli – Italian physicist and mathematician".
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