1657 in science

none thumb | right | alt=Portrait of a man sitting on a desk and writing with a quill. | Portrait of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, born 11 February 1657 1657 science 1657 The year 1657 in science and technology involved some significant events. Geography Peter Heylin publishes his Cosmographie, one of the earliest attempts to describe the entire world in English and the first known description of Australia. Mathematics Christiaan Huygens writes the first book to be published on probability theory,"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably." —Christiaan Huygens, Letter to Pierre Perrault, 'Sur la préface de M. Perrault de son traité del'Origine des fontaines' [1763], Oeuvres Complétes de Christiaan Huygens (1897), Vol. 7, 298. Quoted in Jacques Roger, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, ed. Keith R. Benson and trans. Robert Ellrich (1997), 163. Quotation selected by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds., 2005), Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations 0-19-858409-1 p. 317 quotation 4. De ratiociniis in ludo aleae ("On Reasoning in Games of Chance").963–965 Jan Gullberg Jan Gullberg Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers W. W. Norton & Company 978-0-393-04002-9 https://archive.org/details/mathematicsfromb1997gull/page/963 Medicine Walter Rumsey invents the provang, a baleen instrument which he describes in his Organon Salutis: an instrument to cleanse the stomach.http://www.coffee-beans-arabica.com/info/coffee_houses_of_old_london.htm The Coffee Houses of Old London 2011-05-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20120225232747/http://www.coffee-beans-arabica.com/info/coffee_houses_of_old_london.htm 2012-02-25 deadhttp://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/james-cornelius-morrice/wales-in-the-seventeenth-century--its-literature-and-men-of-letters-and-action-ala/page-26-wales-in-the-seventeenth-century--its-literature-and-men-of-letters-and-action-ala.shtml J. C. Morrice Wales in the Seventeenth Century: its literature and men of letters and action Bangor Jarvis & Foster 1918 26 2011-05-23 Technology Christiaan Huygens patents his 1656 design for a pendulum clock and the first example is made for him by Salomon Coster at The Hague.van den Ende, Hans Huygens's Legacy: The Golden Age of the Pendulum Clock Fromanteel Ltd 2004 etal approx. date – The anchor escapement for clocks is probably invented by Robert Hooke.Milham Willis I. Time and Timekeepers 1945 London Macmillan 978-0-7808-0008-3 146Glasgow David Watch and Clock Making 1885 Cassell London https://archive.org/details/watchandclockma00glasgoog 293Headrick Michael 2002 Origin and Evolution of the Anchor Clock Escapement Control Systems Magazine Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 22 2 http://www.geocities.com/mvhw/anchor.html 2007-06-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20091025120920/http://geocities.com/mvhw/anchor.html October 25, 2009 dead Reid Thomas Treatise on Clock and Watch-making, Theoretical and Practical Carey & Lea 1832 Philadelphia https://archive.org/details/treatiseonclock01reidgoog 184 Institutions Accademia del Cimento established in Florence.Panzanelli Roberta Ephemeral Bodies:Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure https://books.google.com/books?id=LmVkL49nvDgC&pg=PA102 Getty Research Institute 102 2008 9780892368778 Births February 11 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientific populariser (died 1757) approx. date – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (died 1704) Deaths June 3 – William Harvey, English physician who discovered the circulation of blood (born 1578) June 16 – Fortunio Liceti, Italian Aristotelian scientific polymath (born 1577) September 23 – Joachim Jungius, German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science (born 1587) October 22 – Cassiano dal Pozzo, Italian scholar and patron (born 1588) November – John French, English physician and chemist (born c. 1616) References Category:17th century in science Category:1650s in science