1665 in science
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The year 1665 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Cartography
- Publication of the 'Atlas Maior' (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum) completed by Joan Blaeu in Amsterdam.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Paleontology
- Athanasius Kircher in Mundus subterraneus describes giant bones as those belonging to extinct races of humans.[1]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
- approx. date - James Petiver, English naturalist and apothecary (died 1718)
[edit] Deaths
- January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (born 1601)
[edit] References
- ^ Palmer, Douglas (2005). Earth Time: exploring the deep past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-02221-4.
