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Dokumen 123
1640 in science
Overview of the events of 1640 in science
List of years in science
(
table
)
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1640 in science
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Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
Transportation technology
Social sciences
Psychology
Governance and policy studies
Paleontology
Dinosaurs' extinction
Extraterrestrial environment
Terrestrial environment
Tornado research
Other/related
Literature
Timeline of cosmological theories
List of open letters by academics
History of technology by type
List of science timelines
v
t
e
The year
1640 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Botany
John Parkinson
publishes
Theatrum Botanicum:The Theater of Plants, or, An Herbal of a Large Extent
.
[
1
]
Mathematics
The 16-year-old
Blaise Pascal
demonstrates the properties of the
hexagrammum mysticum
in his
Essai pour les coniques
which he sends to
Mersenne
.
October 18 –
Fermat
states his "
little theorem
" in a letter to
Frénicle de Bessy
: if
p
is a
prime number
, then for any
integer
a
,
a
p
−
a
will be divisible by
p
.
December 25 – Fermat claims a proof of the
theorem on sums of two squares
in a letter to Mersenne ("Fermat's Christmas Theorem"): an
odd
prime
p
is expressible as the sum of two squares.
Technology
The
micrometer
is developed.
A form of
bayonet
is invented; in later years it will gradually replace the
pike
.
The
reticle telescope
is developed and initiates the birth of
sharpshooting
.
Births
April 1 –
Georg Mohr
,
Danish
mathematician
(died
1697
)
December 13 (
bapt.
) –
Robert Plot
,
English
naturalist
and
chemist
and illustrator of the first
dinosaur
fossil
(died
1696
)
Elias Tillandz
, Swedish physician and botanist in Finland (died
1693
)
Deaths
December 22 –
Jean de Beaugrand
,
French
mathematician (born c. 1584)
References
^
Tran, Linh.
"Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, An Herbal of a Large Extent"
.
Texas A&M University
Bioinformatics Working Group. Archived from
the original
on November 5, 2008
. Retrieved
2011-04-01
.