1680 in science
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The year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- 14 November NS - Great Comet of 1680 observed by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.[1]
[edit] Botany
- Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta, utilising his method of taxonomy.[2]
[edit] Physics
- 8 July - Robert Hooke observes the nodal patterns associated with the vibrations of glass plates.[3][4]
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[edit] Deaths
- 17 February - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637)
[edit] References
- ^ Werner, James W. "The Great Comet of 1680". http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html. Retrieved 2006-02-05.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 02 April 2011.
- ^ "Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni". Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110514140121/http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html. Retrieved 08 May 2011.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Scientists. Oxford University Press. 1999. p. 101.
