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1654 in science
The year
1654 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Sicilian
astronomer
Giovanni Battista Hodierna
publishes
De systemate orbis cometici, deque admirandis coeli characteribus
including a
catalog
of
comet
s and
nebula
e.
Mathematics
At the prompting of the
Chevalier de Méré
,
Blaise Pascal
corresponds with
Pierre de Fermat
on gambling problems, from which is born the theory of
probability
.
Physics
May 8 âÂÂ
Otto von Guericke
demonstrates the effectiveness of his
vacuum pump
and the power of
atmospheric pressure
using the
Magdeburg hemispheres
before
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
, in
Regensburg
.
Births
December 27 âÂÂ
Jakob Bernoulli
, Swiss
mathematician
(died
1705
).
John Banister
, English missionary and
botanist
(died
1692
).
prob. date
âÂÂ
Eleanor Glanville
, English
entomologist
(died
1709
).
Deaths
August 31 âÂÂ
Ole Worm
, Danish
physician
,
natural historian
and
antiquary
(born
1588
)
October 18 âÂÂ
Nicholas Culpeper
, English
herbalist
(born
1616
)
Giovanni de Galliano Pieroni
, Italian military engineer and astronomer (born
1586
)
References