1644 in science
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The year 1644 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Technology
[edit] Exploration
- Abel Janszoon Tasman, Dutch explorer and navigator, discovers Tasmania.
[edit] Mathematics
- The Basel problem is posed by Pietro Mengoli, and would puzzle mathematicians until solved by Leonhard Euler in 1735.
[edit] Births
- September 25 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer who made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light (died 1710)
