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1647 in science
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==
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==
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==
Source: Wikipedia ↗
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