Editing 1637 in science

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The year '''1637 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Mathematics==
* [[René Descartes]] promotes intellectual rigour in ''[[Discourse on the Method|Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences]]'' and introduces the [[Cartesian coordinate system]] in its appendix ''[[La Géométrie]]'' (published in [[Leiden]]).<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=68}}</ref>
* [[Pierre de Fermat]] conjectures [[Fermat's Last Theorem]].

==Publications==
* May – Chinese [[encyclopedist]] [[Song Yingxing]] publishes his ''Tiangong Kaiwu'' ("Exploitation of the Works of Nature").

==Births==
* February 12 – [[Jan Swammerdam]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Natural history|naturalist]], pioneer of [[comparative anatomy]] and [[entomology]] (died [[1680 in science|1680]])
* [[François Mauriceau]], [[French people|French]] [[obstetrician]] (died [[1709 in science|1709]])

==Deaths==
* June 24 – [[Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc]], French [[astronomer]] (born [[1580 in science|1580]])
* May 19 – [[Isaac Beeckman]], Dutch [[philosopher]] and scientist (born [[1588 in science|1588]])
* [[Henry Gellibrand]], [[English people|English]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1597 in science|1597]])

==References==
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