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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). Births * January 17 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (died 1693) * March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (died 1724) * April 2 – Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717) * August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist (died c. 1712) * December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734) Deaths * March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (born 1560) * October 8 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562) * October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608 Events January–June * January – In the Colony of Virginia, Powhatan releases Captain John Smith. * January 2 – The first of the Jamestown supply missions returns to the Colony of Virginia wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1712 In Science
The year 1712 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * John Flamsteed's ''Historia Coelestis'' is first published, against his will and without credit by Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley with the influence of John Arbuthnot. (A final version, approved by Flamsteed, is published posthumously in 1725.) Mathematics * Seki Takakazu's discovery of what become known as Bernoulli numbers is first published in his posthumous ''Katsuyo Sanpō''. * Giacomo F. Maraldi experimentally obtains the angle in the rhombic dodecahedron shape, which becomes known as the Maraldi angle. Technology * The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England. Institutions * January 16 – A military engineering school is established in Moscow which is to become the A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy. Births * March 8 – John Fothergill, English physician (died 1780) * March 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1608 In Science
The year 1608 in science and technology involved some significant events. Technology * October 2 – Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first known telescope to the government of the Dutch Republic. * The flintlock muzzleloader is invented; unlike most weapon systems which only lasted a few decades, the flintlock has a long-term impact. * The manufacture of alum is invented and successfully practised in England, under the patronage of King James, by Lord Sheffield. Zoology * Edward Topsell's bestiary ''The Historie of Serpents'' is published in London by William Jaggard. Births * January 28 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian scientist (died 1679) * August 4 – John Tradescant the younger, English botanist (died 1662) * October 15 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647 Events January–March * January 2 – Chinese bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong, who has ruled the Sichuan province since 1644, is killed at Xichong b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli ( , also , ; 15 October 160825 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The Torr is also named after him. Biography Early life Torricelli was born on 15 October 1608 in Rome, the firstborn child of Gaspare Torricelli and Caterina Angetti. His family was from Faenza in the Province of Ravenna, then part of the Papal States. His father was a textile worker and the family was very poor. Seeing his talents, his parents sent him to be educated in Faenza, under the care of his uncle, Giacomo (James), a Camaldolese monk, who first ensured that his nephew was given a sound basic education. He then entered young Torricelli into a Jesuit College in 1624, possibly the one in Faenza itself, to study mathematics and philosophy until 1626, by which time his father, Gaspare, had died. The uncl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1562 In Science
The year 1562 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Geography * Diego Gutiérrez and Hieronymus Cock published the map ''Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio''. Mathematics * Humphrey Baker's arithmetic textbook ''The Wellspring of Sciences'' first published in London. Births * April 24 – Xu Guangqi, Chinese polymath (died 1633) * October 4 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (died 1647) Deaths * October 9 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (born 1523 Year 1523 ( MDXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 20 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. * ...) {{DEFAULTSORT:1562 In Science 16th century in science 1560s in science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danes
Danes ( da, danskere, ) are a North Germanic ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural. Danes generally regard themselves as a nationality and reserve the word "ethnic" for the description of recent immigrants, sometimes referred to as "new Danes". The contemporary Danish national identity is based on the idea of "Danishness", which is founded on principles formed through historical cultural connections and is typically not based on racial heritage. History Early history Denmark has been inhabited by various Germanic peoples since ancient times, including the Angles, Cimbri, Jutes, Herules, Teutones and others. The first mentions of " Danes" are recorded in the mid-6th century by historians Procopius ( el, δάνοι) and Jordanes (''danī''), who both refer to a tribe related to the Suetidi inhabiting the peninsula of Jutland, the province of Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (also as Longberg or Severin) (4 October 1562 – 8 October 1647) was a Danish astronomer. The name Longomontanus was a Latinized form of the name of the village of Lomborg, Jutland, Denmark, where he was born. His father, a laborer called Søren, or Severin, died when Christen was eight years old. An uncle took charge of the child, and had him educated at Lemvig; but after three years sent him back to his mother, who needed his help to work the fields. She agreed that he could study during the winter months with the clergyman of the parish; this arrangement continued until 1577, when the ill-will of some of his relatives and his own desire for knowledge caused him to run away to Viborg. There he attended the grammar school, working as a labourer to pay his expenses, and in 1588 went to Copenhagen with a high reputation for learning and ability. Engaged by Tycho Brahe in 1589 as his assistant in his great astronomical observatory of Uraniborg, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1560 In Science
The year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Events * The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded in Naples by Giambattista della Porta. Astronomy * August 21 – A total solar eclipse is observable in Europe. Biology * The Old Botanical Garden, Zurich, originates as Conrad Gessner's private herbarium. Births * January 17 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (died 1624) * June 25 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (died 1634) * ''undated'' – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (died 1647) * ''approx date'' ** Thomas Harriot, English ethnographer, astronomer and mathematician (died 1621) ** Hugh Myddelton, Welsh-born goldsmith and hydraulic engineer (died 1631) Deaths * William Shakespeare's grandfather; Richard Shakespeare died from natural causes, on 23 April. * November 15 − Domingo de Soto Domingo de Soto, O.P. (1494 – 15 November 1560) was a Spanish Dominican priest and Scholastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beekeeper
A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees. Beekeepers are also called honey farmers, apiarists, or less commonly, apiculturists (both from the Latin '' apis'', bee; cf. apiary). The term beekeeper refers to a person who keeps honey bees in beehives, boxes, or other receptacles. The beekeeper does not control the creatures. The beekeeper owns the hives or boxes and associated equipment. The bees are free to forage or leave (swarm) as they desire. Bees usually return to the beekeeper's hive as the hive presents a clean, dark, sheltered home. Purposes of beekeeping Value of honey bees Honey bees produce commodities such as honey, beeswax, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. Some beekeepers also raise queens and other bees to sell to other farmers, and to satisfy scientific curiosity. Beekeepers also use honeybees to provide pollination services to fruit and vegetable growers. Many people keep bees as a hobby. Others do it for income either as a sideline to other work or as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Butler (beekeeper)
Charles Butler (1571 – 29 March 1647), sometimes called the ''Father of English Beekeeping'', was a logician, grammarist, author, priest (Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, England), and an influential beekeeper. He was also an early proponent of English spelling reform. He observed that bees produce wax combs from scales of wax produced in their own bodies; and he was among the first to assert that drones are male and the queen female, though he believed worker bees lay eggs. Biography Butler was born into a poor family in Buckinghamshire, South East England, but became a boy chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford at the age of eight. At the age of ten, he matriculated, taking his BA in 1584 and his MA in 1587. In 1593, Butler became Rector of Nately Scures in Hampshire in 1593 and in 1595 became also Master at the Holy Ghost School, Basingstoke. He resigned to accept an incumbency at Wootton St Lawrence in 1600 and served that rural post until his death on 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1734 In Science
The year 1734 in science and technology involved some significant events. Mathematics * George Berkeley publishes ''The Analyst'', an empiricist critique of the foundations of infinitesimal calculus, influential in the development of mathematics. * Leonhard Euler introduces the integrating factor technique for solving first-order ordinary differential equations. Technology * James Short (mathematician), James Short constructs a Gregorian telescope, Gregorian reflecting telescope with an aperture of . Zoology * René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur begins publication of ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes'' in Amsterdam. Awards * Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers Births * January 23 – Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarians, Hungarian inventor (died 1804 in science, 1804) * April 18 – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedes, Swedish botanist (died 1819 in science, 1819) * May 23 – Franz Mesmer, German people, German physician (died 1815 in science, 1815) * September 3 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
