1668 in science
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The year 1668 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope.
[edit] Biology
- Francesco Redi publishes Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti ("Experiments on the Generation of Insects"), disproving theories of the spontaneous generation of maggots in putrefying matter.
[edit] Mathematics
- Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an infinite series for the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment.
[edit] Medicine
- François Mauriceau publishes Traité des Maladies des Femmes Grosses et Accouchées in Paris, a key text in scientific obstetrics.[1]
[edit] Births
- December 31 - Hermann Boerhaave, Dutch physician and chemist who makes Leiden a European centre of medical knowledge (died 1738)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ Morton, Leslie T. (1943). A Medical Bibliography; a check-list of texts illustrating the history of the medical sciences. London: Grafton.
