1670 in science
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The year 1670 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Botany
[edit] Earth sciences
- Jean Picard calculates the radius of the Earth to within 0.44% of the modern value.
- Agostino Scilla publishes La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso: lettera risponsiva c. i corpi marini, che petrificati si trovano in varii luoghi terrestri ("Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense") in Naples, arguing for an organic origin for fossils.
[edit] Technology
- The first longcase clock is built in England by William Clement.
[edit] Births
- February 25 - Maria Margarethe Kirch born Winckelmann, German astronomer (died 1720)
[edit] Deaths
- March 10 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (born 1604)
- May 21 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (born 1586)
