The year 1639 in science and technology involved some significant events. Giovanni Battista Zupi observes that the planet Mercury has orbital phases....

1639 (MDCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1639th...

first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent...

A partial solar eclipse occurred on January 4, 1639 during winter in Asia's Siberia in the Samoyed lands. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes...

Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are...

year 1636 in science and technology involved some significant events. Pierre de Fermat begins to circulate his work in analytic geometry in manuscript...

The year 1640 in science and technology involved some significant events. John Parkinson publishes Theatrum Botanicum:The Theater of Plants, or, An Herbal...

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The year 1642 in science and technology involved some significant events. Rundetårn astronomical observatory for the University of Copenhagen is completed...

literary events and publications of 1639. c. January – The first printing press in British North America is launched in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Stephen...

The year 1630 in science and technology involved some significant events. Following his recently completed Rudolphine Tables, Kepler predicts a transit...

bar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Google developer documentation style guide word list The Jargon File entry on "foobar", catb.org RFC 1639 – FTP...

The year 1643 in science and technology involved some significant events. January 21 – Abel Tasman discovers the Tonga archipelago. December 25 – Captain...

The year 1634 in science and technology involved some significant events. Johannes Kepler's fictional account of the view from the Moon Somnium (written...

The year 1644 AD in science and technology involved several significant events in mathematics, technology, and medicine. The Basel problem is posed by...

The year 1632 in science and technology involved some significant events. The University of Tartu in Swedish Livonia is founded. February 22 – Galileo's...

The year 1645 in science and technology involved some significant events. The Solar cycle enters the 70-year Maunder Minimum. First published map of the...

The year 1638 in science and technology involved some significant events. December 21 – Total eclipse of the Moon falls on the same day as the winter solstice...

The year 1629 in science and technology involved some significant events. In London, John Parkinson publishes Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris: a...

1647 in science and technology involved some significant events. Johannes Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his Selenographia...

The year 1641 in science and technology involved some significant events. Nicolaes Tulp's Observationes Medicae is published in Amsterdam. The sealed...

The year 1646 in science and technology involved some significant events. Pascal's law, a law of hydrostatics is developed, stating that, in a perfect fluid...

The year 1637 in science and technology involved some significant events. René Descartes promotes intellectual rigour in Discours de la méthode pour bien...

year 1887. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

year 1631 in science and technology involved some significant events. November 7 – Using Kepler's predictions of planetary transits made in 1630, Pierre...

Kircher in Rome, asking for clues. His 1639 letter to Kircher, recently located by Rene Zandbergen, is the earliest known mention of the manuscript. In 1637...

revised edition of the Irish statutes, then in progress. In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed. Blackstone's...

The year 1648 in science and technology involved some significant events. Johannes Hevelius discovers the longitudinal libration of the Moon. June–September...

The year 1633 in science and technology involved some significant events. June 22 – Galileo Galilei, the Italian scientist, is convicted of heresy by the...

for publishing this book, even though it reached Rome's bookstores in January 1639, and all available copies were quickly sold. According to Maurice Finocchiaro...