1647 in science
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.
Births
- January 17 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer
- March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French inventor
- April 2 – Maria Sybilla Merian, German lepidopterist
- August 22 – Denis Papin, French physicist
- December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician