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The year 1643 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Exploration

  • January 21 – Abel Tasman discovers the Tonga archipelago.
  • December 25 – Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company discovers Christmas Island.

Meteorology

  • Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.

Births

  • January 4 (NS) – Isaac Newton, English physicist (died 1727)
  • Jean de Fontaney, French Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (died 1710)
  • Pierre Dionis, French surgeon and anatomist (died 1718)

Deaths

  • April 9 – Benedetto Castelli, Italian mathematician (born 1578)
  • November 3
  • John Bainbridge, English astronomer (born 1582)
  • Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (born 1577)
  • Sophia Brahe, Danish astronomer (born 1556)
  • Gasparo Berti, Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist (born c. 1600)
  • Walter Warner, English scientist (born 1563)

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