1661 in science
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The year 1661 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Biology
- Marcello Malpighi is the first to observe and correctly describe capillaries when he discovers them in a frog's lung.[1]
[edit] Chemistry
- Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist is published in London.
[edit] Environment
- John Evelyn's pamphlet Fumifugium is one of the earliest descriptions of air pollution.[2]
[edit] Publications
- Abraham Cowley's pamphlet The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy.
[edit] Births
- May 3 - Antonio Vallisneri, Italian physician and natural scientist (d. 1730)
- December 18 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
- Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (d. 1704)
- approx. date - Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist (d. 1730)
[edit] Deaths
- October - Gérard Desargues, French geometer (b. 1591)
[edit] References
- ^ Cliff, W. J. (1976). Blood Vessels. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0521207533.
- ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Cristopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
