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1658 In Science
The year 1658 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * ''approx. date'' – Kamalakara compiles his major work, ''Siddhāntatattvaviveka'', in Varanasi. Life sciences * Jan Swammerdam observes red blood cells (in the frog) with the aid of a microscope. * Samuel Volckertzoon observes a quokka on Rottnest Island. Mathematics * Christopher Wren gives the first published proof of the arc length of a cycloid. Publication * Posthumous publication of Arzneibüchlein, pharmacopoeia compiled by Anna von Diesbach. Births * March 5 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (died 1730) * April 2 - Pierre Pomet, French pharmacist (died 1699) * April 8 - Georges Mareschal, French surgeon (died 1736) * ''unknown date'' – Nicolas Andry, French physician (died 1742) Deaths * January 9 - Pierre-Jean Fabre, French physician and alchemist (born 1588) * October 22 – Charles Bouvard, French herbalist Herbal medicine (also herba ... [...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] |
1730 In Science
The year 1730 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * The analemma is developed by the French astronomer Grandjean de Fouchy. Mathematics * James Stirling publishes ''Methodus differentialis, sive tractatus de summatione et interpolatione serierum infinitarum''. Physics * The Reaumur scale is developed by French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, with 0° = the freezing point of water and 80° = the boiling point. Technology * Joseph Foljambe of Rotherham, England, produces the iron-clad Rotherham swing plough. Births * April 15 – Moses Harris, English entomologist and engraver (died c. 1788) * July 12 – Anna Barbara Reinhart, Swiss mathematician (died 1796) * June 26 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (died 1817) * August 12 – Edmé-Louis Daubenton, French naturalist (died 1785) * December 8 ** Johann Hedwig, Transylvanian-born German botanist (died 1799) ** Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physiologist (died 1799) * Maria Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1658 In Science
The year 1658 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * ''approx. date'' – Kamalakara compiles his major work, ''Siddhāntatattvaviveka'', in Varanasi. Life sciences * Jan Swammerdam observes red blood cells (in the frog) with the aid of a microscope. * Samuel Volckertzoon observes a quokka on Rottnest Island. Mathematics * Christopher Wren gives the first published proof of the arc length of a cycloid. Publication * Posthumous publication of Arzneibüchlein, pharmacopoeia compiled by Anna von Diesbach. Births * March 5 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (died 1730) * April 2 - Pierre Pomet, French pharmacist (died 1699) * April 8 - Georges Mareschal, French surgeon (died 1736) * ''unknown date'' – Nicolas Andry, French physician (died 1742) Deaths * January 9 - Pierre-Jean Fabre, French physician and alchemist (born 1588) * October 22 – Charles Bouvard, French herbalist Herbal medicine (also herba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1572 In Science
The year 1572 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Astronomy * November 9 – A supernova, now designated as SN 1572, is first observed in the constellation Cassiopeia (constellation), Cassiopeia by Cornelius Gemma. Tycho Brahe, who notes it two days later, will use it to challenge the prevailing view that stars do not change. Cartography * Georg Braun begins publication of his urban atlas ' in Cologne. Mathematics * Imaginary numbers defined by Rafael Bombelli. Medicine * Girolamo Mercuriale of Forlì (Italy) writes the work ' ("On the diseases of the skin"), the first scientific tract on dermatology. Technology * Mathew Baker (shipwright), Mathew Baker appointed Master Shipwright to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Births * November 25 - Daniel Sennert, Germany, German physician (died 1637 in science, 1637) * Johann Bayer, German people, German Star cartography, uranographer (died 1625 in science, 1625) * Charles Bouvard, French people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbalist
Herbal medicine (also herbalism) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. With worldwide research into pharmacology, some herbal medicines have been translated into modern remedies, such as the anti-malarial group of drugs called artemisinin isolated from ''Artemisia annua'', a herb that was known in Chinese medicine to treat fever. There is limited scientific evidence for the safety and efficacy of plants used in 21st century herbalism, which generally does not provide standards for purity or dosage. The scope of herbal medicine commonly includes fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts. Herbal medicine is also called phytomedicine or phytotherapy. Paraherbalism describes alternative and pseudoscientific practices of using unrefined plant or animal extracts as unproven medicines or health-promoting agents. Paraherbalism relies on the belief that preserving various substa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bouvard
Charles Bouvard (1572 in Montoire– 25 October 1658) was a French chemist and physician. Bouvard served as the physician of France's King Louis XIII (as successor of Jean Héroard) and as the superintendent of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Biography Bouvard was himself a son of a physician from his native city who taught him his profession in Bouvard's earliest childhood, yet died when Bouvard was still a small child leaving him an orphan Recognising his skill, he was brought up by Marin Liberge, a professor at the famous university of Angers which was to be his Alma mater and the place where he received his doctor title in 1604. Shortly thereafter he came to Paris where he became a professor at the Collège Royal. Bouvard was known for using his knowledge of plants to create a number of medicines from common ordinary flowers. The flower Bouvard is most closely associated with is the evergreen herb and shrub genus ''Bouvardia''. Bouvard also wrote the ''Historicae Hodiernae Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1588 In Science
The year 1588 in science and technology, Armada year, included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Astronomy * Tycho Brahe publishes ''De mundi aetheri recentioribus phaenomenis'' in Uraniborg. * Giovanni Paolo Gallucci publishes his star atlas ''Theatrum Mundi et Temporis'' (Theater of the world and time). History of science * October 7 – The first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (died 1543) is completed by Bernardino Baldi. Mathematics * Pietro Cataldi discovers the sixth and seventh Mersenne primes by this year. * Giovanni Antonio Magini Giovanni Antonio Magini (in Latin, Maginus) (13 June 1555 – 11 February 1617) was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician. His Life He was born in Padua, and completed studies in philosophy in Bologna in 1579. Hi ... is chosen over Galileo Galilei, Galileo to occupy the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna after the death of Egnatio Danti. * Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Jean Fabre
Pierre-Jean Fabre (1588- 9 January 1658) was a French doctor and alchemist. Born in Castelnaudary, France in 1588, he studied medicine in Montpellier, France. He became a practitioner of the iatrochemical medicine of Paracelsus. Beginning in 1610 he practiced medicine in Castelnaudary. He became famous as a specialist in the plague which was particularly severe in central Europe during the Thirty Years' War. Fabre prescribed chemical medications for the treatment of the plague and was at one time the private physician of King Louis XIII of France. Fabre was a practising alchemist, and claimed to have succeeded in the alchemical transmutation of lead into silver on 22 July 1627. He was strongly attracted to mystical aspects of chemistry, drawing parallels between the chemical operations of alchemy and the sacraments of the Christian church, particularly in his ''Alchymista Christianus'' (1632). Fabre died in Castelnaudary on 9 January 1658. Alchymista Christianus "He saw vali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1742 In Science
The year 1742 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * January 14 – Death of Edmond Halley; James Bradley succeeds him as Astronomer Royal in Great Britain. Mathematics * June – Christian Goldbach produces Goldbach's conjecture. * Colin Maclaurin publishes his ''Treatise on Fluxions'' in Great Britain, the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods. Metrology * Anders Celsius publishes his proposal for a centigrade temperature scale originated in 1741. Physiology and medicine * Surgeon Joseph Hurlock publishes his ''A Practical Treatise upon Dentition, or The breeding of teeth in children'' in London, the first treatise in English on dentition. Technology * Benjamin Robins publishes his ''New Principles of Gunnery, containing the determination of the force of gun-powder and an investigation of the difference in the resisting power of the air to swift and slow motions'' in London, containing a description of his ballistic pendulum and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying diseases and their treatment—the ''science'' of medicine—and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or ''craft'' of medicine. Both the role of the physician and the meaning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Andry
Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard (1658 – 13 May 1742) was a French physician and writer. He played a significant role in the early history of both parasitology and orthopedics, the name for which is taken from Andry's book ''Orthopédie''. Early life and career Andry was born in Lyon, and spent his early life preparing for the priesthood. His early studies were widespread, however, and he published a book on the usage of the French language in 1692. In his 30s he studied medicine at Reims and Paris, receiving his degree in 1697, and in 1701 he was appointed to the faculty of the Collège de France and the editorial board of the ''Journal des savants''. Worms Andry's early medical work lies within the nascent germ theory of disease. His first book, ''De la génération des vers dans les corps de l'homme'', was published in 1700, and translated into English in 1701 as ''An Account of the Breeding of Worms in Human Bodies''. The book was an account of Andry's experiments with the mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1736 In Science
The year 1736 in science and technology involved some significant events. Botany * Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador. Earth sciences * June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in the Torne Valley of Finland. Mathematics * June 8 – Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a connection between integrals and calculus. * Euler produces the first ''published'' proof of Fermat's "little theorem". * Sir Isaac Newton's ''Method of Fluxions'' (1671), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published (posthumously) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations against the criticism of George Berkeley (anonymously). Medicine * Early 1736 – The “Publick Workhouse and House of Correction” that is to bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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