1647 in science
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The year 1647 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Technology
- The heights of mountains began to be measured by using a barometer to gauge pressure at various elevations.
[edit] Astronomy
- Johannes Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his Selenographia.
[edit] Births
- April 2 - Maria Sybilla Merian, German biologist and entomologist who studied the life cycles of butterflies (died 1717)
- Denis Papin, French physicist and technologist (died c1712)
[edit] Deaths
- Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)
