1655 in science

none 1655 science 1655 The year 1655 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy March 25 – Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. Biology Botanical garden established at Uppsala University. Thomas Muffet's Healths Improvement, or, Rules comprising and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation is published posthumously in England, containing, inter alia, descriptions of a wide range of wildfowl to be found in the country. Mathematics John Wallis introduces the symbol ∞ to represent infinity.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 29 Births January 6 (27 December 1654 OS) – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1705) September 10 – Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish anatomist (died 1738) Deaths February 1 – Giovanni Baptista Ferrari, Italian Jesuit botanist and linguist (born 1584) October 16 – Rabbi Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan-born peripatetic physician and scientist (born 1591) October 24 – Pierre Gassendi, French physicist who played a crucial role in the revival of atomism (born 1592) Francesco Pona, Veronese physician and poet (born 1595) References Category:17th century in science Category:1650s in science