Editing 1656 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* [[Louis XIV]] commissions the architect [[Libéral Bruant]] to build the [[Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital|Hospice de la Salpêtrière]] hospital in [[Paris]].
* [[Physician]] [[Samuel Stockhausen]] of the metal mining town of [[Goslar]] in [[Lower Saxony]] publishes his ''Libellus de lithargyrii fumo noxio morbifico, ejusque metallico frequentiori morbo vulgò dicto die Hütten Katze oder Hütten Rauch'' ("Treatise on the Noxious Fumes of [[Litharge]], Diseases caused by them and Miners' Asthma"), a pioneering study of [[occupational disease]].<ref>{{cite journal|issn=0025-7273|volume=26|issue=3|pages=279–302|last=Eisinger|first=J.|title=Lead and wine: Eberhard Gockel and the colica Pictonum|journal=Medical History|date=July 1982|pmid=6750289|pmc=1139187|doi=10.1017/s0025727300041508}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Risse|first=Guenter B.|authorlink=Guenter B. Risse|title=New Medical Challenges During the Scottish Enlightenment|publisher=Rodopi|location=Amsterdam|year=2005|page=207|isbn=90-420-1814-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1E1zksfOfscC&dq=Samuel+Stockhausen&pg=PA207|accessdate=2009-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rosen|first=George|title=The History of Miners' Diseases: a medical and social interpretation|publisher=Schuman's|year=1943|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHYaAAAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Stockhausen|format=book preview|accessdate=2009-03-06}}</ref>