1665 in science

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The year 1665 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Cartography

• Publication of the 'Atlas Maior' (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum) completed by Joan Blaeu in Amsterdam.

Medicine

• April 12 - First recorded victim of the 'Great Plague of London' (1665–66), the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in the British Isles.

Microbiology

• September - Robert Hooke's Micrographia published, first applying the term 'cell' to plant tissue, which he discovered first in cork, then in living organisms, using a microscope.

Paleontology

• Athanasius Kircher in Mundus subterraneus describes giant bones as those belonging to extinct races of humans.

Publications

• January 5 - The Journal des sçavans begins publication in France, the first scientific journal.
• March 6 - The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication in England, the first scientific journal in English.

Births

• approx. date - James Petiver, English naturalist and apothecary (d. 1718)

Deaths

• January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)