1637 in science

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The year 1637 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

• René Descartes introduces the Cartesian coordinate system in his work La Géométrie and promotes intellectual rigour in Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences (published in Leiden).

Births

• February 12 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, pioneer of comparative anatomy and entomology (d. 1680)
• François Mauriceau, French obstetrician (d. 1709)

Deaths

• June 24 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
• May 19 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and scientist (b. 1588)