1631 in science
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The year 1631 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Geology
- Mount Vesuvius erupts for the only time this century.
[edit] Mathematics
- William Oughtred publishes Clavis Mathematicae, introducing the multiplication sign (×) and proportion sign (::).[1][2]
[edit] Births
- Richard Lower, English physician who performed the first direct blood transfusion (d. 1691)
- approx. date - William Ball, English astronomer (d. 1690)
[edit] Deaths
- October 20 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
- December 10 - Sir Hugh Myddelton, Welsh-born goldsmith and hydraulic engineer (b. c.1560)
[edit] References
- ^ Cajori, Florian (1919). A History of Mathematics. Macmillan. http://books.google.com/?id=bBoPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA157&dq=inauthor:cajori+william-oughtred+multiplication.
- ^ Pycior, Helena Mary (1997). Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick. p. 48. ISBN 0521481244.
