1647 in science

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The year 1647 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy

Johannes Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his Selenographia.

Births

April 2 - Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (d. 1717)
August 22 - Denis Papin, French physicist (d. c.1712)
December 7 - Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (d. 1734)

Deaths

October 8 - Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
October 25 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)