1647 in science
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The year 1647 in science and technology consisted of many events, some of which are listed below.
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 Sibylla Merian, German biologist and entomologist who studied the life cycles of butterflies (died 1717)
- Denis Papin, French physicist and technologist (died c1712)
Deaths
- Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)