Editing 1657 in science (section)

==Mathematics==
* [[Christiaan Huygens]] writes the first book to be published on [[probability theory]],<ref>"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably." —Christiaan Huygens, Letter to Pierre Perrault, 'Sur la préface de M. Perrault de son traité del'Origine des fontaines' [1763], ''Oeuvres Complétes de Christiaan Huygens'' (1897), Vol. '''7''', 298. Quoted in Jacques Roger, ''The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought'', ed. Keith R. Benson and trans. Robert Ellrich (1997), 163. Quotation selected by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds., 2005), ''Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations'' {{ISBN|0-19-858409-1}} p. 317 quotation 4.</ref> ''De ratiociniis in ludo aleae'' ("On Reasoning in Games of Chance").<ref>{{cite book|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mathematicsfromb1997gull/page/963 963–965]|authorlink=Jan Gullberg|first=Jan|last=Gullberg|title=Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-04002-9|url=https://archive.org/details/mathematicsfromb1997gull/page/963}}</ref>