1650 in science
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The year 1650 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- In Ursa Major, the handle's middle star, Mizar, is noted to be a binary star, by Giambattista Riccioli (1598-1671).
[edit] Exploration
[edit] Botany
- Begonias are first discovered by Francisco Hernandez.
[edit] Geology
- The Kolumbo underwater volcano in the Aegean Sea is discovered when it bursts from the sea and erupts, killing 70 people on a nearby island.
[edit] Births
- Thomas Savery, English inventor of steam engine (d. 1715)
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 - René Descartes, mathematician (born 1596)
- Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer who carried out one of the earliest studies of sunspots and made significant improvements to the helioscope and the telescope (born 1573)
