Births
- April? - William Brouncker, Anglo-Irish mathematician (died 1684)
- July 21 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (died 1682)
- Bernard de Gomme, Dutch military engineer (died 1685)
- Edme Mariotte, French physicist (died 1684)
- Robert Morison, Scottish botanist (died 1683)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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