1666 in science
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The year 1666 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- December 22 - French Academy of Sciences first meets.
[edit] Botany
- Establishment of Herrenhäuser Gärten, Hanover.
[edit] Mathematics
- Isaac Newton develops differential calculus.
- Samuel Morland produces several designs of pocket calculating machine and also publishes A New Method of Cryptography.[1]
[edit] Physics
- Isaac Newton uses a prism to split sunlight into the component colours of the optical spectrum, assisting understanding of the nature of light.
- Robert Hooke and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli both expound gravitation as an attractive force (Hooke’s lecture “On gravity” at the Royal Society of London on March 21; Borelli’s Theoricae Mediceorum planetarum ex causis physicis deductae, published in Florence later in the year).[2]
[edit] Publications
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, publishes Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, including an attack on Robert Hooke's Micrographia.[3]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (b. 1587)
[edit] References
- ^ Dickinson, H. W. (1970). Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor 1625–1695. Cambridge: Heffer for the Newcomen Society. ISBN 0-85270-061-X.
- ^ Wilson, Curtis (1989). "The Newtonian achievement in astronomy". Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics: 2A: Tycho Brahe to Newton. Cambridge University Press. p. 239.
- ^ Fitzmaurice, James (2004). "Cavendish, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (1623?–1673)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4940. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4940. Retrieved 2011-11-24. subscription or UK public library membership required
