Editing 1648 in science

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The year '''1648 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Johannes Hevelius]] discovers the [[Libration#Lunar libration|longitudinal libration of the Moon]].<ref>{{cite book | editor=Jacqueline Bergeron| title =Highlights of Astronomy: As Presented at the XXIst General Assembly of the IAU, 1991| publisher =Springer Science & Business Media| year =2013| page =521| isbn =9401128286}}</ref> 

==Exploration==
* June–September – [[Semyon Dezhnyov]] makes the first recorded voyage through the [[Bering Strait]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Fisher, Raymond H.|title=The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648|location=London|publisher=[[Hakluyt Society]]|year=1981|isbn=0-904180-07-7}}</ref>

==Natural history==
* [[Willem Piso]] and [[Georg Marcgrave]]'s ''[[Historia Naturalis Brasiliae]]'' is published in the [[Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Willem Piso|url=http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/author.asp?creator=Piso,%20Willem&creatorID=111|first=Robert F|last=Erickson|work=Rare Books from the MBG Library|publisher=[[Missouri Botanical Garden]]|accessdate=2011-04-02}}</ref>

==Physics==
* September 19 – [[Blaise Pascal]]'s brother-in-law, Florin Périer, demonstrates in an ascent of the [[Puy-de-Dôme]] that [[atmospheric pressure]] varies with height.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

==Technology==
* [[Clear script]], used by the [[Torgut]] [[Mongol]]s of Sinkiang, is developed by [[Zaya Pandita]].

==Publications==
* [[Jan Baptist van Helmont]]'s collected works, ''Ortus medicinae, vel opera et opuscula omnia'', are published posthumously by [[Lodewijk Elzevir]] in [[Amsterdam]], edited and [[Latin]]ized by his son [[Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont]]. Transitional between [[alchemy]] and [[chemistry]], they contain the results of numerous experiments and establish an early version of the [[law of conservation of mass]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Johann Baptista van Helmont|work=History of Gas Chemistry|publisher=Center for Microscale Gas Chemistry, Creighton University|date=2005-09-25|url=http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/vanHelmont.html|accessdate=2007-02-23}}</ref>

==Births==
* December 15 – [[Gregory King]], [[English people|English]] [[statistician]] (died [[1712 in science|1712]])

==Deaths==
* September 1 – [[Marin Mersenne]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1588 in science|1588]])
* November 3 – [[John Bainbridge (astronomer)|John Bainbridge]], English [[astronomer]] (born [[1582 in science|1582]])

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