1657 in science
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The year 1657 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Mathematics
- Christiaan Huygens writes the first book to be published on probability theory,[1] De ratiociniis in ludo aleae ("On Reasoning in Games of Chance").[2]
[edit] Medicine
- Walter Rumsey invents the provang, a baleen instrument which he describes in his Organon Salutis: an instrument to cleanse the stomach.[3][4]
[edit] Technology
- approx. date - The anchor escapement for clocks is probably invented by Robert Hooke.[5][6][7][8]
[edit] Institutions
- Accademia del Cimento established in Florence.
[edit] Births
- February 11 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientific populariser (d. 1757)
- approx. date - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (d. 1704)
[edit] Deaths
- June 3 - William Harvey, English physician who discovered the circulation of blood (b. 1578)
- September 23 - Joachim Jungius, German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science (b. 1587)
- October 22 - Cassiano dal Pozzo, Italian scholar and patron (b. 1588)
[edit] References
- ^ "I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably." —Christiaan Huygens, Letter to Pierre Perrault, 'Sur la préface de M. Perrault de son traité del'Origine des fontaines' [1763], Oeuvres Complétes de Christiaan Huygens (1897), Vol. 7, 298. Quoted in Jacques Roger, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, ed. Keith R. Benson and trans. Robert Ellrich (1997), 163. Quotation selected by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds., 2005), Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations ISBN 0-19-858409-1 p. 317 quotation 4.
- ^ Gullberg, Jan. Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 963–965. ISBN 978-0-393-04002-9.
- ^ "The Coffee Houses of Old London". http://www.coffee-beans-arabica.com/info/coffee_houses_of_old_london.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
- ^ Morrice, J. C. (1918). Wales in the Seventeenth Century: its literature and men of letters and action. Bangor: Jarvis & Foster. p. 26. http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/james-cornelius-morrice/wales-in-the-seventeenth-century--its-literature-and-men-of-letters-and-action-ala/page-26-wales-in-the-seventeenth-century--its-literature-and-men-of-letters-and-action-ala.shtml. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
- ^ Milham, Willis I. (1945). Time and Timekeepers. London: Macmillan. p. 146. ISBN 0780800087.
- ^ Glasgow, David (1885). Watch and Clock Making. London: Cassell. p. 293. http://books.google.com/?id=9wUFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA124.
- ^ Headrick, Michael (2002). "Origin and Evolution of the Anchor Clock Escapement". Control Systems magazine (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 22 (2). Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. http://web.archive.org/web/20091025120920/http://geocities.com/mvhw/anchor.html. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
- ^ Reid, Thomas (1832). Treatise on Clock and Watch-making, Theoretical and Practical. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. p. 184. http://books.google.com/?id=BB8JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA184.
