The year 1648 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy edit
- Johannes Hevelius discovers the longitudinal libration of the Moon.[1]
Exploration edit
- June–September – Semyon Dezhnyov makes the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait.[2]
Natural history edit
- Willem Piso and Georg Marcgrave's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae is published in the Netherlands.[3]
Physics edit
- 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.[citation needed]
Technology edit
- Clear script, used by the Torgut Mongols of Sinkiang, is developed by Zaya Pandita.
Publications edit
- 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.[4]
Births edit
- December 15 – Gregory King, English statistician (died 1712)
Deaths edit
- September 1 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (born 1588)
- November 3 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (born 1582)
References edit
- ^ Jacqueline Bergeron, ed. (2013). Highlights of Astronomy: As Presented at the XXIst General Assembly of the IAU, 1991. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 521. ISBN 9401128286.
- ^ Fisher, Raymond H., ed. (1981). The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648. London: Hakluyt Society. ISBN 0-904180-07-7.
- ^ Erickson, Robert F. "Willem Piso". Rare Books from the MBG Library. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
- ^ "Johann Baptista van Helmont". History of Gas Chemistry. Center for Microscale Gas Chemistry, Creighton University. 2005-09-25. Retrieved 2007-02-23.