1647 in science
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The year 1647 in science and technology involved some significant events.
[edit] Astronomy
- Johannes Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his Selenographia.
[edit] Births
- April 2 - Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (d. 1717)
- August 22 - Denis Papin, French physicist (d. c.1712)
- December 7 - Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (d. 1734)
- Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (d. 1724)
[edit] Deaths
- March 29 - Charles Butler, English beekeeper (b. 1560)
- October 8 - Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
- October 25 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
