1636 in science

none thumb | right | Frontispiece engraving showing Sanctorio sitting in the balance that he constructed to determine the net weight change over time after the intake and excretion of food stuffs and fluids 1636 science 1636 The year 1636 in science and technology involved some significant events. Mathematics Pierre de Fermat begins to circulate his work in analytic geometry in manuscript. Muhammad Baqir Yazdi and René Descartes independently discover the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056. Physics Marin Mersenne publishes his Traité de l'harmonie universelle, containing Mersenne's laws describing the frequency of oscillation of a stretched string.Jeans James H. 1968 Science and Music Dover Publications 978-0486619644 registration https://archive.org/details/sciencemusic00sirj_1nu Publications Daniel Schwenter publishes Delicia Physic-Mathematicae, including a description of a quill pen with an ink reservoir. Births Father Jacques Marquette, French explorer (died 1675) December 26 – Justine Siegemund, German midwife (died 1705) Deaths February 22 – Sanctorius, Italian physiologist (born 1561) Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (born 1563) Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (born 1566) References Category:1636 Category:17th century in science Category:1630s in science