1679 in science

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The year 1679 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

• Establishment of Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam).

Mathematics

• Samuel Morland publishes The Doctrine of Interest, both Simple & Compound, probably the first tables produced with the aid of a calculating machine.

Medicine

• Great Plague of Vienna.

Publications

• Publication in Paris of the first of Edme Mariotte's Essays de phisique: De la végétation des plantes, a pioneering discussion of plant physiology; and De la nature de l'air, a statement of Boyle's law.

Births

• January 24 - Christan Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (d. 1754)

Deaths

• January 14 - Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (b. 1602)