1676 in science
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The year 1676 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Danish astronomer Ole Rømer measures the speed of light by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons, obtaining a speed of 140,000 miles per second (approximately 25% too slow).
- Summer - The Royal Greenwich Observatory, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.[1]
[edit] Biology
- Antony Van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria, observed with the microscope.
- Francis Willughby's Ornithologiae is published by John Ray, the foundation of scientific ornithology.[2][3][4][5]
[edit] Medicine
- William Briggs publishes an anatomy of the eye (the first in England), Ophthalmographia, at Cambridge.[6]
[edit] Paleontology
- The first fossilised bone of what is now known to be a dinosaur is discovered in England by Robert Plot, the femur of a Megalosaurus from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.[7]
[edit] Technology
- July 7 - The first clocks using a form of deadbeat escapement, constructed by Thomas Tompion to a design by Richard Towneley, are installed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
[edit] Births
- May 28 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
[edit] Deaths
- September 4 - John Ogilby, English cartographer (b. 1600)
[edit] References
- ^ Chambers, R. (1878). The Book of Days.
- ^ Egerton, Frank N. (October 2005). "A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 18: John Ray and His Associates Francis Willughby and William Derham". Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 86 (4): 301–313. http://www.esapubs.org/bulletin/current/history_list/history18.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
- ^ Keynes, Sir Geoffrey (1976). John Ray, 1627–1705: a bibliography 1660–1970. Amsterdam: Van Heusden. p. 52.
- ^ Raven, Charles E. (1942). John Ray, naturalist: his life and works. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Newton, Alfred (1893). Dictionary of Birds. London: Black.
- ^ Kaplan, Barbara Beigun (2004). "Briggs, William (c.1650–1704)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3413. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3413. Retrieved 2011-10-10. subscription or UK public library membership required
- ^ Sarjeant, William A.S. (1997). "The earliert discoveries". In Farlow, James O.; Brett-Surman, Michael K. (eds). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 3–11. ISBN 0-253-33349-0.
