1664 in science
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The year 1664 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Robert Hooke discovers Jupiter's Great Red Spot.[1]
[edit] Mathematics
- January 18 - Isaac Barrow is appointed first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
- Blaise Pascal's paper on the properties of the triangle is published posthumously.[2]
[edit] Medicine
- Thomas Willis publishes Cerebri Anatome, cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus in London, including illustrations by Christopher Wren. This contains an accurate account of the nervous system and introduces the term "neurology".
[edit] Births
- February 24 - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (d. 1729)
[edit] Deaths
- July 11 (bur.) - Jan Janssonius, Dutch cartographer (b. 1588)
- August 22 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. 1610)
[edit] References
- ^ "Jupiter - The Great Red Spot". Enchanted Learning. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/jupiter/greatredspot.shtml. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
