Editing 1647 in science

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The year '''1647 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Johannes Hevelius]] publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the [[Moon]] in his ''Selenographia'' ([[Danzig]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Astronomical Images: Image database|url=http://www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk/database/entry.php?entry_id=487|website=www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk|accessdate=4 April 2018|archive-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404201233/http://www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk/database/entry.php?entry_id=487|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Births==
* January 17 – [[Elisabeth Hevelius]], Danzig [[astronomer]] (died [[1693 in science|1693]])<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cook|first1=A.|title=Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig|pmid=10824438|journal=Endeavour|volume=24|issue=1|pages=8–12|date=2000|doi=10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01263-6}}</ref>
* March 20 – [[Jean de Hautefeuille]], French inventor (died [[1724 in science|1724]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/13007786/jean_de_hautefeuille/|website=data.bnf.fr|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref>
* April 2 – [[Maria Sybilla Merian]], German [[lepidopterist]] (died [[1717 in science|1717]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Maria Sibylla Merian – Life, Facts, & Works|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Sibylla-Merian|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref>
* August 22 – [[Denis Papin]], French [[physicist]] (died c. [[1712 in science|1712]])<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Robinson|first1=H. W.|title=Denis Papin (1647-1712)|jstor=531177|journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London|pages=47–50|date=1947|volume=5|issue=1|doi=10.1098/rsnr.1947.0007|doi-access=}}</ref>
* December 7 – [[Giovanni Ceva]], Italian [[mathematician]] (died [[1734 in science|1734]])

==Deaths==
* March 29 – [[Charles Butler (beekeeper)|Charles Butler]], English [[beekeeper]] (born [[1560 in science|1560]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mabbe|first1=James|title=James Mabbe, The Spanish Bawd|date=2013|publisher=MHRA|isbn=9781907322099|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=den7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10}}</ref>
* October 8 – [[Christen Sørensen Longomontanus]], [[Danes|Danish]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1562 in science|1562]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Christen Sørensen Longomontanus|url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr91014067/|website=Worldcat|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref>
* October 25 – [[Evangelista Torricelli]], Italian physicist and mathematician (born [[1608 in science|1608]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Evangelista Torricelli – Italian physicist and mathematician|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evangelista-Torricelli|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=4 April 2018}}</ref>

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