1634 in science

none 1634 science 1634 The year 1634 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Johannes Kepler's fictional account of the view from the Moon Somnium (written 1608) is published posthumously by his son.Christianson Gale E. 1976 Kepler's Somnium: Science Fiction and the Renaissance Scientist https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239001 Science Fiction Studies 3 1 79–90 4239001 0091-7729 Botany Thomas Johnson begins publishing Mercurius Botanicus, including a list of indigenous British plants. Johnson, Thomas (d.1644) 30 Boulger George Simonds George Simonds Boulger 47-48 1 Mathematics Gilles de Roberval shows that the area under a cycloid is three times the area of its generating circle.Léon Auger Un savant méconnu, Gilles Personne de Roberval, 1602-1675: son activité intellectuelle dans les domaines mathématique, physique, mécanique et philosophique Paris Blanchard 1962 Medicine Louise Bourgeois Boursier publishes her Collection of Secrets on obstetrics in Paris, including techniques such as podalic version.http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Louise_Bourgeois_(French_midwife).aspx Encyclopedia of World Biography 2005 Bourgeois, Louyse 2011-10-02 Zoology Publication of Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum in London, compiled posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny by Thomas Muffet and prepared for publication by Théodore de Mayerne. Moffett, Thomas 38 Lee Sidney Sidney Lee 101-103 1 Institutions The Académie Française is formed by Cardinal Richelieu (it will be formally established in 1635).Hollier Denis https://books.google.com/books?id=Dr_8DwAAQBAJ A New History of French Literature 1998-08-19 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-25461-9 267 en Births births in 1634 Category:1634 births Deaths February 15 – Wilhelm Fabry, German-born surgeon (born 1560) June 26 – Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (born 1568) Marin le Bourgeoys, French inventor and artist (born c. 1550) (approximate date) Martin Llewellyn, British cartographer (born 1565?) References Category:1634 Category:17th century in science Category:1630s in science