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1636 in science
The year 1636 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Mathematics
•
Pierre de Fermat
begins to circulate his work in
analytic geometry
in manuscript. •
Muhammad Baqir Yazdi
and
René Descartes
independently discover the pair of
amicable numbers
9,363,584 and 9,437,056. ==Physics==
Physics
•
Marin Mersenne
publishes his ''
Traité de l'harmonie universelle
'', containing
Mersenne's laws
describing the
frequency
of
oscillation
of a stretched
string
. ==Publications==
Publications
•
Daniel Schwenter
publishes
Delicia Physic-Mathematicae
, including a description of a
quill
pen with an ink reservoir. ==Births==
Births
• Father
Jacques Marquette
,
French
explorer
(died
1675
) • December 26 –
Justine Siegemund
,
German
midwife
(died
1705
) ==Deaths==
Deaths
• February 22 –
Sanctorius
,
Italian
physiologist
(born
1561
) •
Louise Bourgeois Boursier
, French Royal midwife (born
1563
) •
Michal Sedziwój
,
Polish
alchemist
(born
1566
) == References ==
Source: Wikipedia ↗
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