1638 in science

none 1638 science 1638 The year 1638 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy December 21 – Total eclipse of the Moon falls on the same day as the winter solstice, for the first time in the Common Era. Geology March 27 earthquake in Calabria it Terremoto del 27 marzo 1638 (Italy). June 8 earthquake in Calabria it Terremoto dell'8 giugno 1638. The epicentre was in Crotone. Physics The final book of the now-blind Galileo, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze is published in Leiden, dealing with the strength of materials and the motion of objects. In it, he discusses the square–cube law, the law of falling bodies and infinity. He also discusses his experimental method for measuring the speed of light; he has been unable to determine it over a short distance.Galileo Galilei Two New Sciences Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1974 0-299-06404-2 registration https://archive.org/details/twonewsciencesin0000gali Publications Publication of The Man in the Moone, or the Discovrse of a Voyage thither "by Domingo Gonsales" (actually by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford (died 1633)), an early example of science fiction.Poole William New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period 2010 Farnham Ashgate 978-0-7546-6647-9 57–70 https://books.google.com/books?id=B5-fwpWPbVEC Houston, Chloë Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone: Births of Science-Fiction 1593–1638 Births January 1 (NS January 11) – Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer of geology (died 1686) March 28 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (died 1731) April 19 - Niccolao Manucci, Italian physician, writer and traveller (died 1717) May 11 – Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist (died 1718) June 8 – Pierre Magnol, French botanist (died 1715) June 29 - Heinrich Meibom, German physician and scholar (died 1700) July 22 - Theodor Kerckring, Dutch anatomist and chemical physician (died 1693) November 21 - Luca Tozzi, Italian physician (died 1717) November – James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (died 1675) Paolo Falconieri, Florentine polymath (died 1704) Deaths February 26 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (born 1581) April 15/16 – John Tradescant the elder, English botanist (born c. 1570s) October 21 – Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (born 1571) October 29 – Adrian von Mynsicht, German alchemist (born 1603) December 7 - Epifanio Ferdinando, Italian physician and philosoph (born 1569) References Category:17th century in science Category:1630s in science