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1637 in science
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The year
1637 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Mathematics
2
Births
3
Deaths
4
References
Mathematics
René Descartes
introduces the
Cartesian coordinate system
in his work
La Géométrie
and promotes intellectual rigour in
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences
(published in
Leiden
).
[
1
]
Births
February 12 -
Jan Swammerdam
,
Dutch
naturalist
, pioneer of
comparative anatomy
and
entomology
(d.
1680
)
François Mauriceau
,
French
obstetrician
(d.
1709
)
Deaths
June 24 -
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
, French
astronomer
(b.
1580
)
May 19 -
Isaac Beeckman
, Dutch
philosopher
and scientist (b.
1588
)
References
^
Crilly, Tony (2007).
50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know
. London: Quercus. p. 68.
ISBN
978-1-84724-008-8.