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The year 1636 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Mathematics
[edit]- Pierre de Fermat begins to circulate his work in analytic geometry in manuscript.
- Muhammad Baqir Yazdi and René Descartes independently discover the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056.
Physics
[edit]- Marin Mersenne publishes his Traité de l'harmonie universelle, containing Mersenne's laws describing the frequency of oscillation of a stretched string.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Daniel Schwenter publishes Delicia Physic-Mathematicae, including a description of a quill pen with an ink reservoir.
Births
[edit]- Father Jacques Marquette, French explorer (died 1675)
- December 26 – Justine Siegemund, German midwife (died 1705)
Deaths
[edit]- February 22 – Sanctorius, Italian physiologist (born 1561)
- Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (born 1563)
- Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (born 1566)
References
[edit]- ^ Jeans, James H. (1968). Science and Music. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486619644.