Editing 1650 in science

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The year '''1650 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.
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==Astronomy==
* In [[Ursa Major]], the handle's middle star, [[Mizar (star)|Mizar]], is noted to be a [[binary star|binary]] by [[Giambattista Riccioli]].

==Botany==
* [[William How]] publishes his [[Flora (publication)|flora]] ''Phytologia Britannica''.
* Posthumous publication begins of [[Johann Bauhin]]'s ''Historia plantarum universalis'' at [[Yverdon]].

==Geology==
* The [[Kolumbo underwater volcano]] in the [[Aegean Sea]] is discovered when it bursts from the sea and erupts, killing 70 people on a nearby island.

==Medicine==
* [[English people|English]] [[physician]] [[Francis Glisson]] publishes the first comprehensive [[pediatric]] text on [[rickets]], ''De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgò The rickets dicitur'', the result of collaborative research by members of the [[Royal College of Physicians]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Guido|last=Giglioni|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10819|title=Glisson, Francis (1599?–1677)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|accessdate=2012-01-26|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10819}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>

==Technology==
* [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian]] [[szlachta|nobleman]] [[Kazimierz Siemienowicz]]'s widely translated manual ''Artis Magnae Artilleriae, pars prima'' ("Great Art of [[Artillery]], the first part") is published in [[Amsterdam]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nowak|first=Tadeusz|title=Kazimierz Siemienowicz ok.1600-ok.1951|year=1969|publisher=MON Press|location=Warsaw|oclc=254130686|language=Polish|page=182}}</ref>

==Births==
* November 28 - [[Jan Palfijn]], [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[surgeon]] and [[obstetrician]]  (died [[1730 in science|1730]])
* May 1 ''(bapt.)'' - [[John Radcliffe (physician)|John Radcliffe]], [[English people|English]] [[physician]] (died [[1714 in science|1714]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Thomas Savery]], [[English people|English]] engineer, inventor of a [[Pump#Steam pumps|steam pump]] (died [[1715 in science|1715]])

==Deaths==
* February 11 – [[René Descartes]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1596 in science|1596]])
* June 30 – [[Niccolò Cabeo]], [[Italian people|Italian]] [[polymath]] (born [[1586 in science|1586]])
* July 18 – [[Christoph Scheiner]], [[German people|German]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1573 in science|1573]])
* August – [[John Parkinson (botanist)|John Parkinson]], English [[herbalist]] and [[botanist]] (born [[1567 in science|1567]])
* [[Giovanni Battista Zupi]], Italian astronomer (born c. [[1590 in science|1590]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Greeley|first1=Ronald|last2=Batson|first2=Raymond|title=The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System|date=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521806336|page=[https://archive.org/details/compactnasaatlas0000gree/page/378 378]|url=https://archive.org/details/compactnasaatlas0000gree|url-access=registration|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Philippe d'Aquin]], [[French people|French]] [[physician]], hebraist, philologist and orientalist (born [[1578 in science|1578]])

==References==
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