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

• Marin Mersenne publishes his Traité de l'harmonie universelle, containing Mersenne's laws describing the frequency of oscillation of a stretched string.

Publications

• Daniel Schwenter publishes Delicia Physic-Mathematicae, including a description of a quill pen with an ink reservoir.

Births

• Father Jacques Marquette, French explorer (died 1675)
• December 26 – Justine Siegemund, German midwife (died 1705)

Deaths

• February 22 – Sanctorius, Italian physiologist (born 1561)
• Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (born 1563)
• Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (born 1566)

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