1647 in science

none 1647 science 1647 The year 1647 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Johannes Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio (Danzig).Astronomical Images: Image database http://www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk/database/entry.php?entry_id=487 www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk 4 April 2018 4 April 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180404201233/http://www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk/database/entry.php?entry_id=487 dead Births January 17 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (died 1693)Cook A. Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig 10824438 Endeavour 24 1 8–12 2000 10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01263-6 March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (died 1724)Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724) https://data.bnf.fr/13007786/jean_de_hautefeuille/ data.bnf.fr 4 April 2018 April 2 – Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717)Maria Sibylla Merian – Life, Facts, & Works https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Sibylla-Merian Encyclopædia Britannica 4 April 2018 August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist (died c. 1712)Robinson H. W. Denis Papin (1647-1712) 531177 Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 47–50 1947 5 1 10.1098/rsnr.1947.0007 December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734) Deaths March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (born 1560)Mabbe James James Mabbe, The Spanish Bawd 2013 MHRA 9781907322099 10 https://books.google.com/books?id=den7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 October 8 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562)Christen Sørensen Longomontanus http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr91014067/ Worldcat 4 April 2018 October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)Evangelista Torricelli – Italian physicist and mathematician https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evangelista-Torricelli Encyclopædia Britannica 4 April 2018 References