The idea of this system was developed in 1637 in writings by Descartes and independently by Pierre de Fermat, although Fermat also worked in three dimensions, and did not publish the discovery.

Pierre Vernier ( 1580 – 1637 ) was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices.

** Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor ( d. 1637 )

* January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader ( b. 1637 )

The vernier scale was invented in its modern form in 1631 by the French mathematician Pierre Vernier ( 1580 – 1637 ).

Pierre Jurieu ( December 24, 1637 – January 11, 1713 ) was a French Protestant leader.

He became a patron of science and art, studied fossils, and supported the astronomer Pierre Gassendi from 1634 to 1637.

Pierre Vernier ( 19 August 1580 at Ornans, Franche-Comté, Spanish Habsburgs ( now France ) – 14 September 1637 same location ) was a French mathematician and instrument inventor.

* Pierre Vernier ( 1580 – 1637 ), French mathematician and engineer

*-Le deuxième tome de La Science Universelle paraît sous le titre de Première partie de la Science universelle, contenant la science des choses corporelles, qui est la vraie physique, Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1637.

* 1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer ( d. 1637 )

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

* 1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian ( b. 1637 )

Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln wrote Execreitationes aliquot metaphysicae de Deo ( 1637 ) and spoke often of natural theology during the reign of Charles II.

Nevertheless, in 1637 he published part of this work in three essays: Les Météores ( The Meteors ), La Dioptrique ( Dioptrics ) and La Géométrie ( Geometry ), preceded by an introduction, his famous Discours de la Métode ( Discourse on the Method ).

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* December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer ( d. 1637 )

* January 10 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian ( b. 1637 )

Even the prominent writer Georges de Scudéry harshly criticized the play in his Observations sur le Cid ( 1637 ).

During his career, his main rival was Vice-Admiral Witte de With, who also served the Admiralty of Rotterdam ( de Maze ) from 1637.

* Barrio y Templo Parroquial de Santiago ( 1637 )

He married Christine Marie of France ( 1606 – 1663 ), Regent of the Duchy from 1637 to 1663 and a daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de ' Medici.

On 22 February 1635, at Richelieu's urging, King Louis XIII granted letters patent formally establishing the body ; according to the letters patent registered at the Parlement de Paris on 10 July 1637, the Académie française was " to labor with all the care and diligence possible, to give exact rules to our language, to render it capable of treating the arts and sciences ".

Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus ( 17 January 1574 – 8 September 1637 ) was a prominent English Paracelsian physician.

* 1637 La Mort d ’ Achille et la Dispute de ses armes

La Géométrie was published in 1637 as an appendix to Discours de la méthode ( Discourse on Method ), written by René Descartes.

Christina of Lorraine or Chretienne de Lorraine ( 16 August 1565 – 19 December 1637 ) was a member of the House of Lorraine and was the Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage.

In 1642, she was married to Henri II d ' Orléans, Duke of Longueville, governor of Normandy, a widower twice her age ( his first wife Louise de Bourbon had died in 1637 ).

He attended the University of Alcalá de Henares between 1634 and 1637, studying logic and physics and receiving his Licentiate in December 1639.

* Charles de Schomberg, Duke of Halluin ( 1601 – 1656 ), Marshal of France in 1637.

It was followed by Penthée ( 1637 ), La Mort de Seneque ( 1644 ), La Mort de Crispe ( 1645 ) and the Parasite ( 1654 ).

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

Descartes's original statement was "", from his Discourse on Method ( 1637 ).

The body is now in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa, where it was placed in a glass container encased in a silver casket on 2 December 1637.

Richard Norwood in The Seamans Practice ( 1637 ) determined that 1 / 60th of a degree of any great circle on Earth's surface was 6, 120 feet ( vs the modern value of 6, 080 feet ).

He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement " Cogito ergo sum " (; ), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method ( 1637 – written in French but with inclusion of " Cogito ergo sum ") and § 7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 – written in Latin ).

An example is the branding on both cheeks of William Prynne in 1637 for seditious libel.

* René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) published his Discourse on the Method in 1637, which helped to establish the scientific method.

Year 1637 ( MDCXXXVII ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, ( 1596 – 1687 ), friend of mathematician, philosopher and minor physicist René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle ( deceased 1637 ), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627.

René Descartes independently derived the law using heuristic momentum conservation arguments in terms of sines in his 1637 treatise Discourse on Method, and used it to solve a range of optical problems.

There has been a sanctuary on the spot since the ninth century, but the current church is from 1637.

The further development of the 1552 rite is described in the Article on The Book of Common Prayer and some rites such as the 1637 Scottish rite and the 1789 one in the United States of America went back to the 1549 model.

* Descartes, René ( 1637 ), Discourse on Method.

Fearing to endanger his good relations with the powerful Dutch stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, his assistance to Spain limited itself to allowing Habsburg troops on their way to Dunkirk to employ neutral English shipping ; in 1636 and 1637 he made some halfhearted attempts to extort North Sea herring rights from Dutch fishermen until intervention by the Dutch navy made an end to such practices.

He achieved two victories against the Spanish: In 1636 in the Battle of Tornavento and on September 8, 1637 in the battle of Mombaldone.

Port Republic was settled as early as 1637, but a charter was not applied for until founders Evi Smith, Hugh McCullum, and Richard Wescoat applied for a Royal Charter to build a dam, sawmill, and gristmill on their land along Nacote Creek.

In the midst of this, in 1637, De Ruyter became captain of a private ship meant to hunt for raiders operating from Dunkirk who were preying on Dutch merchant shipping.

Ogilby then went on to establish Ireland's first theatre, the Theatre Royal, Dublin, as a consequence of which he was made deputy-Master of the Revels in 1637.

* Meditations on the Lord's Prayer ( 1637 )