Editing 1646 in science

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The year '''1646 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Technology==
* [[Pascal's law]], a law of [[hydrostatics]] is developed, stating that, in a perfect fluid, the pressure exerted on it anywhere is transmitted equally.

==Publications==
* Dr [[Thomas Browne]]'s ''[[Pseudodoxia Epidemica]]'' is published in [[London]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/261 261]}}</ref> introducing the words ''[[electricity]]'', ''[[medicine|medical]]'', ''[[pathology]]'', ''[[hallucination]]'' and ''[[computer]]'' to the [[English language]] and casting doubt on the theory of [[spontaneous generation]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Gordon|last=Chalmers|title=The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England|journal=Philosophy of Science|year=1937|volume=4|issue=1|pages=75–95|doi=10.1086/286445}}</ref>

==Births==
* April 20 – [[Charles Plumier]], [[French people|French]] [[botanist]] (died [[1704 in science|1704]])
* July 1 – [[Gottfried Leibniz]], [[Germans|German]] scientist and [[mathematician]] (died [[1716 in science|1716]])

==Deaths==
* November 29 – [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]], [[Swedish people|Swedish]] theologian and [[astronomer]] (born [[1565 in science|1565]])

==References==
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