1648 in science

none thumb | right 1648 science 1648 The year 1648 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Johannes Hevelius discovers the longitudinal libration of the Moon.Jacqueline Bergeron Highlights of Astronomy: As Presented at the XXIst General Assembly of the IAU, 1991 Springer Science & Business Media 2013 521 9401128286 Exploration June–September – Semyon Dezhnyov makes the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait.Fisher, Raymond H. The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648 London Hakluyt Society 1981 0-904180-07-7 Natural history Willem Piso and Georg Marcgrave's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae is published in the Netherlands.Willem Piso http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/author.asp?creator=Piso,%20Willem&creatorID=111 Robert F Erickson Rare Books from the MBG Library Missouri Botanical Garden 2011-04-02 Physics September 19 – Blaise Pascal's brother-in-law, Florin Périer, demonstrates in an ascent of the Puy-de-Dôme that atmospheric pressure varies with height.April 2018 Technology Clear script, used by the Torgut Mongols of Sinkiang, is developed by Zaya Pandita. Publications Jan Baptist van Helmont's collected works, Ortus medicinae, vel opera et opuscula omnia, are published posthumously by Lodewijk Elzevir in Amsterdam, edited and Latinized by his son Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Transitional between alchemy and chemistry, they contain the results of numerous experiments and establish an early version of the law of conservation of mass.Johann Baptista van Helmont History of Gas Chemistry Center for Microscale Gas Chemistry, Creighton University 2005-09-25 http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/vanHelmont.html 2007-02-23 2010-07-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20100724220818/http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/vanHelmont.html dead Births December 15 – Gregory King, English statistician (died 1712) Deaths September 1 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (born 1588) November 3 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (born 1582) References Category:1648 Category:17th century in science Category:1640s in science