1650 in science

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The year 1650 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Botany
3 Geology
4 Births
5 Deaths

Astronomy

In Ursa Major, the handle's middle star, Mizar, is noted to be a binary star by Giambattista Riccioli.

Botany

Begonias are first discovered by Francisco Hernandez.
William How publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica.
Posthumous publication begins of Johann Bauhin's Historia plantarum universalis at Yverdon.

Geology

The Kolumbo underwater volcano in the Aegean Sea is discovered when it bursts from the sea and erupts, killing 70 people on a nearby island.

Births

approx. date - Thomas Savery, English engineer, inventor of a steam pump (d. 1715)

Deaths

February 11 - René Descartes, French mathematician (b. 1596)
June 30 - Niccolò Cabeo, Italian polymath (b. 1586)
July 18 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1573)
August - John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (b. 1567)
Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer (b. c.1590)