1664 in science
The year 1664 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy
- May 9 – Robert Hooke discovers Jupiter's Great Red Spot.[1]
Biology
- Francesco Redi writes Osservazioni intorno alle vipere ("Observations about the Viper"), demonstrating that popular beliefs about venom are untrue.
Mathematics
- January 18 – Isaac Barrow is appointed first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
- Blaise Pascal's paper on the properties of the triangle is published posthumously.[2]
Medicine
- Thomas Willis publishes Cerebri Anatome, cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus in London, including illustrations by Christopher Wren. This contains an accurate account of the nervous system and introduces the term "neurology".
Births
- February 24 – Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (died 1729)
- September 22 – Catherine Jérémie, French-Canadian botanist (died 1744)
Deaths
- July 11 (bur.) – Jan Janssonius, Dutch cartographer (born 1588)
- August 22 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (born 1610)
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.
gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/348702212110680064/896356765267025940/FB_IMG_1633757163544.jpg
gollark: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
gollark: Frankly, go emit muon neutrinos.
gollark: If your study produces no result you just won't publish it, which leads to some bias.
References
- "Jupiter - The Great Red Spot". Enchanted Learning. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
- Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
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