1647 in science

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 (Danzig).^[1]

Births

• January 17 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (died 1693)^[2]
• March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (died 1724)^[3]
• April 2 – Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717)^[4]
• August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist (died c. 1712)^[5]
• December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734)

Deaths

• March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (born 1560)^[6]
• October 8 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562)^[7]
• October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)^[8]