1655 in science

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The year 1655 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Biology

• Botanical garden established at Uppsala University.
• Thomas Muffet's Healths Improvement, or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation is published posthumously in England, containing, inter alia, descriptions of a wide range of wildfowl to be found in the country.

Mathematics

• John Wallis introduces the symbol ∞ to represent infinity.

Deaths

• February 1 - Giovanni Baptista Ferrari, Italian Jesuit botanist and linguist (b. 1584)
• October 24 - Pierre Gassendi, French physicist who played a crucial role in the revival of atomism (b. 1592)