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1647 In Science

''See also'': 1646 In Science , Other Events Of 1647 , 1648 In Science , and the List Of Years In Science .

ASTRONOMY

Johannes Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his ''Selenographia''

BIRTHS

April 2 - Maria Sybilla Merian , German biologist and entomologist who studied the life cycles of butterflies (died 1717 )

Denis Papin , French physicist and technologist (died c 1712 )

DEATHS

Evangelista Torricelli , Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608 )