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, sive Lunae descriptio (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)
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