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1637 in science
Summary
The year
1637 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
List of years in science
(
table
)
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Mathematics
edit
René Descartes
promotes intellectual rigour in
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences
and introduces the
Cartesian coordinate system
in its appendix
La Géométrie
(published in
Leiden
).
[1]
Pierre de Fermat
conjectures
Fermat's Last Theorem
.
Publications
edit
May – Chinese
encyclopedist
Song Yingxing
publishes his
Tiangong Kaiwu
("Exploitation of the Works of Nature").
Births
edit
February 12 –
Jan Swammerdam
,
Dutch
naturalist
, pioneer of
comparative anatomy
and
entomology
(died
1680
)
François Mauriceau
,
French
obstetrician
(died
1709
)
Deaths
edit
June 24 –
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
, French
astronomer
(born
1580
)
May 19 –
Isaac Beeckman
, Dutch
philosopher
and scientist (born
1588
)
Henry Gellibrand
,
English
mathematician
(born
1597
)
References
edit
^
Crilly, Tony (2007).
50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know
. London: Quercus. p. 68.
ISBN
978-1-84724-008-8
.