Editing 1651 in science

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The year '''1651 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Anatomy==
* [[Jean Pecquet]] publishes ''Experimenta nova anatomica'' which includes his findings on the lymphatic system.
* [[William Harvey]] describes organ formation in the developing [[embryo]] in ''[[De Generatione]]''.

==Astronomy==
* [[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]]'s ''De Mundo Nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova'' ("A New Philosophy of Our Sublunar World") is published posthumously. It theorises that the fixed stars are not all the same distance from Earth, and that the force of  [[magnetism]] holds the [[planet]]s in [[orbit]] around the [[Sun]].
* Italian astronomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli]]'s ''Almagestum Novum'' includes a map of the [[Moon]] giving definitive names to many features.

==Botany==
* [[Begonia]]s become known in Europe (although discovered by Father Francisco Hernández in Mexico before 1577).<ref>{{cite web|title=Begonias|url=http://www.herbs2000.com/flowers/bg_1_begonias.htm|work=herbs2000.com|accessdate=2012-06-01}}</ref>

==Chemistry==
* German scientist [[Johann Glauber]] publishes ''Opera omnia chymica (Complete Works of Chemistry)'', a description of different techniques in [[chemistry]].
* English [[physician]] [[John French (physician)|John French]] publishes ''The Art of Distillation'', the first detailed handbook in English on [[distillation]].

==Medicine==
* [[Noah Biggs]] publishes {{lang|enm|Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeōs, The vanity of the Craft of Physick, or, A new Dispensatory; wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c., and the particular medicines of the shops; with an humble motion for the reformation of the universities and the whole landscap of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie}} to the Parliament of England.
* [[Nicholas Culpeper]] publishes his [[medical astrology]] treatise, ''Semiotica uranica, or, An Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick''.<ref>{{cite web|first=Patrick|last=Curry|title=Culpeper, Nicholas (1616–1654)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6882|accessdate=2011-03-23}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
* [[Jean Pecquet]] publishes ''Experimenta Nova Anatomica'' in Paris, including his discovery of the ''[[Cisterna chyli]]''.

==Births==
* January 20 – [[Edward Tyson]], English comparative anatomist (died [[1708 in science|1708]])
* April 10 – [[Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus]], German mathematician (died [[1708 in science|1708]])
* August 28 ''(bapt.)'' – [[Edmund Dummer (naval engineer)|Edmund Dummer]], English naval engineer (died [[1713 in science|1713]])
* September 5 ''(bapt.)'' – [[William Dampier]], English explorer and hydrographic surveyor, circumnavigates the world three times (died [[1715 in science|1715]])

==Deaths==
* September – [[Arthur Dee]], English [[physician]] and [[alchemist]] (born [[1579 in science|1579]])
* September 24 – [[Étienne Pascal]], French [[mathematician]] (born [[1588 in science|1588]])

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