1646 in science

none 1646 science 1646 The year 1646 in science and technology involved some significant events. Technology Pascal's law, a law of hydrostatics is developed, stating that, in a perfect fluid, the pressure exerted on it anywhere is transmitted equally. Publications Dr Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica is published in London,Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 261 introducing the words electricity, medical, pathology, hallucination and computer to the English language and casting doubt on the theory of spontaneous generation.Gordon Chalmers The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England Philosophy of Science 1937 4 1 75–95 10.1086/286445 Births April 20 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (died 1704) July 1 – Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (died 1716) Deaths November 29 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (born 1565) References Category:17th century in science Category:1640s in science