Overview of the events of 1638 in science
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The year 1638 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Geology
- March 27 earthquake in Calabria [it] (Italy).
- June 8 earthquake in Calabria [it]. The epicentre was in Crotone.
Physics
Publications
Births
- January 1 (NS January 11) – Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer of geology (died 1686)
- March 28 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (died 1731)
- April 19 - Niccolao Manucci, Italian physician, writer and traveller (died 1717)
- May 11 – Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist (died 1718)
- June 8 – Pierre Magnol, French botanist (died 1715)
- June 29 - Heinrich Meibom, German physician and scholar (died 1700)
- July 22 - Theodor Kerckring, Dutch anatomist and chemical physician (died 1693)
- November 21 - Luca Tozzi, Italian physician (died 1717)
- November – James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (died 1675)
- Paolo Falconieri, Florentine polymath (died 1704)
Deaths
References
- ^ Galileo Galilei (1974). Two New Sciences. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06404-2.
- ^ Poole, William (2010). "Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone: Births of Science-Fiction 1593–1638". In Houston, Chloë (ed.). New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 57–70. ISBN 978-0-7546-6647-9.