1650 in science

none 1650 science 1650 The year 1650 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy In Ursa Major, the handle's middle star, Mizar, is noted to be a binary by Giambattista Riccioli. Botany William How publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica. Posthumous publication begins of Johann Bauhin's Historia plantarum universalis at Yverdon. Geology The Kolumbo underwater volcano in the Aegean Sea is discovered when it bursts from the sea and erupts, killing 70 people on a nearby island. Medicine English physician Francis Glisson publishes the first comprehensive pediatric text on rickets, De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgò The rickets dicitur, the result of collaborative research by members of the Royal College of Physicians.Guido Giglioni http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10819 Glisson, Francis (1599?–1677) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 2012-01-26 10.1093/ref:odnb/10819 Technology Polish–Lithuanian nobleman Kazimierz Siemienowicz's widely translated manual Artis Magnae Artilleriae, pars prima ("Great Art of Artillery, the first part") is published in Amsterdam.Nowak Tadeusz Kazimierz Siemienowicz ok.1600-ok.1951 1969 MON Press Warsaw 254130686 Polish 182 Births November 28 - Jan Palfijn, Flemish surgeon and obstetrician (died 1730) May 1 (bapt.) - John Radcliffe, English physician (died 1714) approx. date – Thomas Savery, English engineer, inventor of a steam pump (died 1715) Deaths February 11 – René Descartes, French mathematician (born 1596) June 30 – Niccolò Cabeo, Italian polymath (born 1586) July 18 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (born 1573) August – John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (born 1567) Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer (born c. 1590)Greeley Ronald Batson Raymond The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System 2001 Cambridge University Press 9780521806336 378 https://archive.org/details/compactnasaatlas0000gree registration en Philippe d'Aquin, French physician, hebraist, philologist and orientalist (born 1578) References Category:17th century in science Category:1650s in science