1676 in science

none 1676 science 1676 The year 1676 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Summer – The Royal Greenwich Observatory, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed near London.R. Chambers Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802) The Book of Days https://archive.org/details/b22650477_0002 1878 December 7 – 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). Edmond Halley arrives on the island of Saint Helena, having left the University of Oxford, and sets up an astronomical observatory to catalogue stars from the Southern Hemisphere. Biology Antony Van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria, observed with the microscope.September 17, 2018 India Today How bacteria was discovered by the father of microbiology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/bacteria-discovery-by-antonie-van-leeuwenhoek-1341671-2018-09-17 2021-08-30 Francis Willughby's Ornithologiae is published by John Ray, the foundation of scientific ornithology.Frank N. Egerton A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 18: John Ray and His Associates Francis Willughby and William Derham http://www.esapubs.org/bulletin/current/history_list/history18.pdf Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 86 4 301–313 2011-04-26 October 2005 10.1890/0012-9623(2005)86[301:ahotes]2.0.co;2Geoffrey Keynes Keynes Sir Geoffrey 1976 John Ray, 1627–1705: a bibliography 1660–1970 Van Heusden Amsterdam 52Charles E. Raven Raven Charles E. 1942 John Ray, naturalist: his life and works Cambridge University PressAlfred Newton Newton Alfred 1893 Dictionary of Birds https://archive.org/details/adictionarybird00shufgoog Black London Medicine William Briggs publishes an anatomy of the eye (the first in England), Ophthalmographia, at Cambridge.Barbara Beigun Kaplan Briggs, William (c.1650–1704) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3413 2011-10-10 10.1093/ref:odnb/3413 Thomas Sydenham publishes the textbook la Observationes mediciae, the enlarged 3rd edition of his la Methodus curandi febres. 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.Sarjeant William A.S. Farlow, James O. Brett-Surman, Michael K. The Complete Dinosaur 1997 Indiana University Press Bloomington 0-253-33349-0 3–11 The earliest discoveries registration https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253333490/page/3 Physics Robert Hooke first reveals Hooke's law as a Latin anagram.The anagram is given in alphabetical order, ceiiinosssttuv, representing la Ut tensio, sic vis – "As the extension, so the force": Petroski Henry Henry Petroski Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing https://archive.org/details/inventionbydesig00petr registration 1996 Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA 978-0674463684 11 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. Births May 28 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1754) Caleb Threlkeld, Irish botanist (died 1728) Maria Clara Eimmart, German astronomer, engraver and designer (died 1707) Deaths May 25 – Johann Rahn, Swiss mathematician (born 1622) September 4 – John Ogilby, English cartographer (born 1600) References Category:17th century in science Category:1670s in science