1643 in science

none 1643 science 1643 The year 1643 in science and technology involved some significant events. Exploration January 21 – Abel Tasman discovers the Tonga archipelago. December 25 – Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company discovers Christmas Island.http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/christmas/culture-history/island-history.html Christmas Island history Australian Government, Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 2011-12-09 2011-11-02 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120304001240/http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/christmas/culture-history/island-history.html 2012-03-04 Meteorology Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.Introduction Evangelista Torricelli Lezioni Accademiche Florence 1715 Births January 4 (NS) – Isaac Newton, English physicist (died 1727) Jean de Fontaney, French Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (died 1710) Pierre Dionis, French surgeon and anatomist (died 1718)12462161b Deaths April 9 – Benedetto Castelli, Italian mathematician (born 1578) November 3 John Bainbridge, English astronomer (born 1582) Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (born 1577) Sophia Brahe, Danish astronomer (born 1556) Gasparo Berti, Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist (born c. 1600) Walter Warner, English scientist (born 1563) References Category:17th century in science Category:1640s in science