1647 in science
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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).{{cite web|title=Astronomical Images: Image database|url=http://www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk/database/entry.php?entry_id=487|website=www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk|accessdate=4 April 2018|archive-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404201233/http://www.astronomicalimages.group.cam.ac.uk/database/entry.php?entry_id=487|url-status=dead}}
Births
- January 17 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (died 1693){{cite journal|last1=Cook|first1=A.|title=Johann and Elizabeth Hevelius, astronomers of Danzig|pmid=10824438|journal=Endeavour|volume=24|issue=1|pages=8–12|date=2000|doi=10.1016/s0160-9327(99)01263-6}}
- March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor (died 1724){{cite web|title=Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/13007786/jean_de_hautefeuille/|website=data.bnf.fr|accessdate=4 April 2018}}
- April 2 – Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist (died 1717){{cite web|title=Maria Sibylla Merian – Life, Facts, & Works|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Sibylla-Merian|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=4 April 2018}}
- August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist (died c. 1712){{cite journal|last1=Robinson|first1=H. W.|title=Denis Papin (1647-1712)|jstor=531177|journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London|pages=47–50|date=1947|volume=5|issue=1|doi=10.1098/rsnr.1947.0007|doi-access=}}
- December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734)
Deaths
- March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (born 1560){{cite book|last1=Mabbe|first1=James|title=James Mabbe, The Spanish Bawd|date=2013|publisher=MHRA|isbn=9781907322099|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=den7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10}}
- October 8 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562){{cite web|title=Christen Sørensen Longomontanus|url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr91014067/|website=Worldcat|accessdate=4 April 2018}}
- October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608){{cite web|title=Evangelista Torricelli – Italian physicist and mathematician|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evangelista-Torricelli|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=4 April 2018}}