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The year '''1656 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events.

==Astronomy==
* [[Christiaan Huygens]] discovers that Saturn's [[planetary rings]] consist of rocks.

==Botany==
* Publication in [[Vienna]] of [[Michał Boym]]'s ''[[Flora Sinensis]]'', the first book that uses the name "[[Flora (publication)|Flora]]" in this meaning, a book covering the plant world of a region (in this case, China).

==Medicine==
* [[Louis XIV]] commissions the architect [[Libéral Bruant]] to build the [[Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital|Hospice de la Salpêtrière]] hospital in [[Paris]].
* [[Physician]] [[Samuel Stockhausen]] of the metal mining town of [[Goslar]] in [[Lower Saxony]] publishes his ''Libellus de lithargyrii fumo noxio morbifico, ejusque metallico frequentiori morbo vulgò dicto die Hütten Katze oder Hütten Rauch'' ("Treatise on the Noxious Fumes of [[Litharge]], Diseases caused by them and Miners' Asthma"), a pioneering study of [[occupational disease]].<ref>{{cite journal|issn=0025-7273|volume=26|issue=3|pages=279–302|last=Eisinger|first=J.|title=Lead and wine: Eberhard Gockel and the colica Pictonum|journal=Medical History|date=July 1982|pmid=6750289|pmc=1139187|doi=10.1017/s0025727300041508}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Risse|first=Guenter B.|authorlink=Guenter B. Risse|title=New Medical Challenges During the Scottish Enlightenment|publisher=Rodopi|location=Amsterdam|year=2005|page=207|isbn=90-420-1814-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1E1zksfOfscC&dq=Samuel+Stockhausen&pg=PA207|accessdate=2009-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rosen|first=George|title=The History of Miners' Diseases: a medical and social interpretation|publisher=Schuman's|year=1943|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHYaAAAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Stockhausen|format=book preview|accessdate=2009-03-06}}</ref>

==Technology==
* December 25 – [[Christiaan Huygens]] designs the first working [[pendulum]] clock, which is sufficiently accurate to be fitted with both a minute hand and a second hand.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Clocks and Watches: THe Leap to Precision|first=William J. H.|last=Andrewes|title=Encyclopedia of Time|editor=Macey, Samuel L.|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|page=124}}</ref>

==Publications==
* [[Thomas Willis]] publishes ''De Fermentatione''.

==Births==
* June 5 – [[Joseph Pitton de Tournefort]], [[French people|French]] [[botanist]] (died [[1708 in science|1708]])
* October 29 ([[Julian calendar]]) – [[Edmond Halley]], [[English people|English]] [[astronomer]] (died [[1742 in science|1742]])

==Deaths==
* April 24 – [[Thomas Fincke]], [[Danish people|Danish]] [[mathematician]] (born [[1561 in science|1561]])
* November 6 – [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]], French mathematician, astronomer and [[astrologer]] (born [[1583 in science|1583]])

==References==
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