1646 in science

The year 1646 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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Technology

• Pascal's Law, a law of hydrostatics is developed, stating that, in a perfect fluid, the pressure exerted on it anywhere is transmitted equally.

Publications

• Dr Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica is published in London,[1] introducing the words electricity, medical, pathology, hallucination and computer to the English language and casting doubt on the theory of spontaneous generation.[2]

Births

• April 20 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (died 1704)
• July 1 – Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (died 1716)

Deaths

• November 29 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (born 1565)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 261. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Chalmers, Gordon (1937). "The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England". Philosophy of Science. 4 (1): 75–95. doi:10.1086/286445.