Editing 1655 in science

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The year '''1655 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* March 25 – [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], [[Saturn]]'s largest moon, is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens]].

==Biology==
* [[Botanical garden]] established at [[Uppsala University]].
* [[Thomas Muffet]]'s ''Healths Improvement, or, Rules comprising and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation'' is published posthumously in England, containing, ''inter alia'', descriptions of a wide range of wildfowl to be found in the country.

==Mathematics==
* [[John Wallis]] introduces the symbol <big>∞</big> to represent [[infinity]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=29}}</ref>

==Births==
* January 6 (27 December 1654 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) – [[Jacob Bernoulli]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[mathematician]] (died [[1705 in science|1705]])
* September 10 – [[Caspar Bartholin the Younger]], [[Danes|Danish]] [[anatomist]] (died [[1738 in science|1738]])

==Deaths==
* February 1 – [[Giovanni Baptista Ferrari]], Italian [[Jesuit]] [[botanist]] and linguist (born [[1584 in science|1584]])
* October 16 – Rabbi [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]], [[Crete|Cretan]]-born peripatetic [[physician]] and scientist (born [[1591 in science|1591]])
* October 24 – [[Pierre Gassendi]], French [[physicist]] who played a crucial role in the revival of [[atomism]] (born [[1592 in science|1592]])
* [[Francesco Pona]], [[Verona|Veronese]] physician and poet (born [[1595 in science|1595]])

==References==
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