1673 in science

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The year 1673 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Mathematics

• John Kersey begins publication of The Elements of that Mathematical Art commonly called Algebra.
• Samuel Morland publishes A Perpetual Almanack and Several Useful Tables.

Microbiology

• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's observations with the microscope are first published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Physics

• Christiaan Huygens publishes his mathematical analysis of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum.

Births

• August 10 - Johann Conrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician (d. 1734)

Deaths

• May 6 - Werner Rolfinck, German scientist (b. 1599)
• August 17 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist who discovered the ovarian follicles (b. 1641)
• December 15 - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (b. 1623)