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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
January 17 âÂÂ
Elisabeth Hevelius
, Danzig
astronomer
(died
1693
)
March 20 âÂÂ
Jean de Hautefeuille
, French inventor (died
1724
)
April 2 âÂÂ
Maria Sybilla Merian
, German
lepidopterist
(died
1717
)
August 22 âÂÂ
Denis Papin
, French
physicist
(died c.
1712
)
December 7 âÂÂ
Giovanni Ceva
, Italian
mathematician
(died
1734
)
Deaths
March 29 âÂÂ
Charles Butler
, English
beekeeper
(born
1560
)
October 8 âÂÂ
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus
,
Danish
astronomer
(born
1562
)
October 25 âÂÂ
Evangelista Torricelli
, Italian physicist and mathematician (born
1608
)
References