Editing 1652 in science

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The year '''1652 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Publications==
* [[Elias Ashmole]] publishes his anthology of English [[Alchemy|alchemical]] literature, ''[[Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum]]''.
* [[Gerard Boate]]'s ''Natural History of Ireland'' is published posthumously.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Connolly |editor1-first=S. J. |title=The Oxford companion to Irish history |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199691869 |page=53 |edition=2nd}}</ref>
* [[Nicholas Culpeper]] publishes his [[herbal]], ''The English Physitian, or, An astrologo-physical discourse on the vulgar herbs of this nation, being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being 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>
* Priest, statesman, economist and poet [[Robert Arnauld d'Andilly]] publishes ''La manière de cultiver les arbres fruitiers. Par le Sieur Le Gendre, curé d'Hénonville. Où il est traité des pepinieres, des espaliers, des contr'espaliers, des arbres en buisson, & à haute tige'' in Paris, advocating the training of fruit trees on [[espalier]]s.

==Births==
* April 21 – [[Michel Rolle]], [[French people|French]] [[mathematician]], known for [[Rolle's theorem]] (died [[1719 in science|1719]])

==Deaths==
* October 8 – [[John Greaves]], English [[astronomer]] (born [[1602 in science|1602]])
* November 4 – [[Jean-Charles de la Faille]], [[Flanders|Flemish]] mathematician (born [[1597 in science|1597]])
* November 21 – [[Jan Brożek]], [[Poland|Polish]] mathematician, physician and astronomer (born [[1585 in science|1585]])

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