1680 in science

none December 2020 1680 science 1680 The year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy 14 November NS – Great Comet of 1680 observed by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html The Great Comet of 1680 James W Werner 2006-02-05 24 June 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060624133119/http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html dead Biology English comparative anatomist Edward Tyson publishes Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess, dissected at Gresham Colledge, concluding that the porpoise is a mammal. 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.Oliver Francis Wall Makers of British Botany Cambridge University Press 1913 15–16 Robert Morison 1620–1683... http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Makers_of_British_botany/Robert_Morison_1620%E2%80%941683_and_John_Ray_1627%E2%80%941705 2 April 2011 Chemistry 30 September – Robert Boyle reports to the Royal Society of London his manufacture of phosphorus. He uses it to ignite sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of the match.N. C. Datta The Story of Chemistry Universities Press 2005 74Metabolism of the Anthroposphere Peter Baccini Paul H. Brunner MIT Press 2012 978-0262300544 288 Physics 8 July – Robert Hooke observes the nodal patterns associated with the vibrations of glass plates.http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University 8 May 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110514140121/http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html 14 May 2011 101 Oxford Dictionary of Scientists https://archive.org/details/dictionaryscient00dain limited Oxford University Press 1999 Births births in 1680 Category:1680 births Deaths 17 February – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637) 22 March – François Cureau de La Chambre, French physician (born 1630)https://books.google.com/books?id=ktNVifjcOcAC&pg=PA269 L'Anthropologie 1894 Masson. 270 fr Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (born 1610) References Category:17th century in science Category:1680s in science