1656 in science
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The year 1656 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Christiaan Huygens discovers that Saturn's planetary rings consist of rocks.
[edit] Botany
- Publication in Vienna of Michał Boym's Flora Sinensis, the first book that uses the name "Flora" in this meaning, a book covering the plant world of a region.
[edit] Medicine
- Louis XIV commissions the architect Libéral Bruant to build the Hospice de la Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
[edit] Technology
- Christiaan Huygens designs the first working pendulum clock, which is sufficiently accurate to be fitted with both a minute hand and a second hand.
[edit] Publications
- Thomas Willis publishes De Fermentatione.
[edit] Births
- June 5 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (d. 1708)
- October 29 (Julian calendar) - Edmond Halley, English astronomer (d. 1742)
[edit] Deaths
- April 24 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (b. 1561)
- November 6 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician (b. 1583)
