The year 1636 in science and technology involved
some significant events.
== Mathematics ==
Pierre de Fermat begins to circulate his work
in analytic geometry in manuscript.
Muhammad Baqir Yazdi and René Descartes independently
discover the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584
and 9,437,056.
== Publications ==
Daniel Schwenter publishes Delicia Physic-Mathematicae,
including a description of a quill pen with
an ink reservoir.
== Births ==
Father Jacques Marquette, French explorer
(died 1675)
December 26 – Justine Siegemund, German
midwife (died 1705)
== Deaths ==
February 22 – Sanctorius, Italian physiologist
(born 1561)
Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife
(born 1563)
Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (born 1566)
