1647 in science

Astronomy

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

  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

  Deaths

• March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper
• October 8 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer
• October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician