1672 in science
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The year 1672 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- John Flamsteed determines the solar parallax from observations of Mars.
- Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn.
- Sir Isaac Newton reads his first Optiks paper before the Royal Society of London.
[edit] Botany
- Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova, per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis, ex Libra Naturae observata et detecta, the first monograph devoted to a specific group of plants, the Umbelliferae.[1]
[edit] Mathematics
- Georg Mohr publishes the Mohr–Mascheroni theorem, that any geometric construction that can be performed by a compass and straightedge can be performed by a compass alone.[2][3]
[edit] Medicine
- Paul Barbette publishes Opera omnia medica et chirurgica.
- Thomas Willis publishes the earliest English work on medical psychology, Two Discourses concerning The Soul of Brutes, Which is that of the Vital and Sensitive of Man.[4]
[edit] Technology
- Dutch painter Jan van der Heyden improves the fire hose, with his brother Nicolaes, a hydraulic engineer.
[edit] Births
- February 13 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (died 1731)
- August 2 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss natural historian (died 1733)
[edit] Deaths
- April 26 - Lionel Lockyer, English quack doctor (born c. 1600)
- late - Semyon Dezhnyov, Pomor navigator, who in 1648 made the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait (born c. 1605)
[edit] References
- ^ Oliver, Francis Wall (1913). "Robert Morison 1620–1683...". Makers of British Botany. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–16. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Makers_of_British_botany/Robert_Morison_1620%E2%80%941683_and_John_Ray_1627%E2%80%941705.
- ^ Mohr, Georg (1672). Euclides Danicus. Amsterdam: Jacob van Velsen.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ "Thomas Willis". Whonamedit?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/336.html. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
