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The year
1641 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Technology
2
Births
3
Deaths
4
References
Technology
The sealed
thermometer
is developed with
Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
, using a glass tube containing
alcohol
, which freezes well below the freezing point of water.
Samuel Winslow
is granted the first
patent
in
North America
by the
Massachusetts General Court
for a new
saltmaking
process.
[
1
]
Births
March -
Menno van Coehoorn
,
Dutch
military engineer
(d.
1704
)
July 30 -
Regnier de Graaf
, Dutch physician and anatomist who discovered the ovarian follicles, which were later named Graafian follicles (d.
1673
)
September 26 -
Nehemiah Grew
,
English
botanist
and
physician
who made some of the early microscopical observations of plants (d.
1712
)
Deaths
January 3 -
Jeremiah Horrocks
, English
astronomer
(b.
1618
)
March 8 -
Xu Xiake
,
Chinese
explorer and geographer (b.
1587
)
Guy de La Brosse
,
French
physician
and
botanist
(b. c.
1586
)
References
^
Cortada, James W. (1998). "Rise of the knowledge worker".
Resources for the Knowledge-based Economy
. Knowledge Reader Series.
8
. Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 141.
ISBN
0750670584.