1646 in science

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The year 1646 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Technology
2 Publications
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References

Technology

Pascal's Law, a law of hydrostatics is developed, stating that, in a perfect fluid, the pressure exerted on it anywhere is transmitted equally.

Publications

Dr Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica is published in London,^[1] introducing the words electricity, medical, pathology, hallucination and computer to the English language and casting doubt on the theory of spontaneous generation.^[2]

Births

July 1 - Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (d. 1716)

Deaths

November 29 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)

References

^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 261. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Chalmers, Gordon (1937). "The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England". Philosophy of Science 4 (1): 75–95. doi:10.1086/286445.