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1643 in science
The year
1643 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Exploration
January 21 âÂÂ
Abel Tasman
discovers the
Tonga
archipelago
.
December 25 â Captain William Mynors of the
British East India Company
discovers
Christmas Island
.
Meteorology
Evangelista Torricelli
invents the
mercury
barometer
.
Births
January 4 (
NS
) âÂÂ
Isaac Newton
, English
physicist
(died
1727
)
Jean de Fontaney
, French
Jesuit
mathematician
and
astronomer
(died
1710
)
Pierre Dionis
, French
surgeon
and
anatomist
(died
1718
)
Deaths
April 9 âÂÂ
Benedetto Castelli
, Italian mathematician (born
1578
)
November 3
John Bainbridge
, English astronomer (born
1582
)
Paul Guldin
,
Swiss
mathematician and astronomer (born
1577
)
Sophia Brahe
,
Danish
astronomer (born
1556
)
Gasparo Berti
, Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist (born c. 1600)
Walter Warner
, English scientist (born
1563
)
References