1677 in science
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The year 1677 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Mathematics
- Publication of Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country, attributed to Edward Cocker (d. 1676). It will remain a standard grammar school textbook in England for more than 150 years.[1]
[edit] Microbiology
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers the spermatozoon.
[edit] Paleontology
- Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the dinosaur Megalosaurus.
[edit] Births
- February 8 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
- September 27 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (d. 1750)
[edit] Deaths
- May 4 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
- October 11 - Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch-born drainage engineer (b. 1595).[2]
- October 14 - Francis Glisson, English physician (b. 1599?)
