1680 in science
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The year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
[edit]- 14 November NS – Great Comet of 1680 observed by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.[1]
Biology
[edit]- English comparative anatomist Edward Tyson publishes Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess, dissected at Gresham Colledge, concluding that the porpoise is a mammal.
- Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta, utilising his method of taxonomy.[2]
Chemistry
[edit]- 30 September – Robert Boyle reports to the Royal Society of London his manufacture of phosphorus. He uses it to ignite sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of the match.[3][4]
Physics
[edit]- 8 July – Robert Hooke observes the nodal patterns associated with the vibrations of glass plates.[5][6]
Births
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- 17 February – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637)
- 22 March – François Cureau de La Chambre, French physician (born 1630)[7]
- Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (born 1610)
References
[edit]- ↑ Werner, James W. "The Great Comet of 1680". Archived from the original on 24 June 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2006.
- ↑ Oliver, Francis Wall (1913). "Robert Morison 1620–1683...". Makers of British Botany. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–16. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ↑ Datta, N. C. (2005). The Story of Chemistry. Universities Press. p. 74.
- ↑ Baccini, Peter; Brunner, Paul H. (2012). Metabolism of the Anthroposphere. MIT Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0262300544.
- ↑ "Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni". Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of Scientists. Oxford University Press. 1999. p. 101.
- ↑ L'Anthropologie (in French). Masson. 1894. p. 270.