1678 in science

none 1678 science 1678 The year 1678 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Edmund Halley publishes a catalogue of 341 southern stars—the first systematic southern sky survey. Physics Christiaan Huygens publishes his Traité de la Lumière/Treatise on Light, which states his principle of wavefront sources. Robert Hooke publishes in full Hooke's law, the fundamental law of elasticity: stress (force) exerted is proportional to the strain (elongation) produced (ut tensio, sic vis ("as the extension, so the force" or "the extension is proportional to the force")).Robert Hooke Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, or of Spring. Explaining the Power of Springing Bodies https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_lectures-de-potentia-res_hooke-robert_1678 The Royal Society London 1678 Zoology Publication of English Spiders by Martin Lister, the first book devoted to spiders. Births April 14 – Abraham Darby I, ironmaster (died 1717) July 16 – Jakob Hermann, mathematician (died 1733) October 27 – Pierre Raymond de Montmort, mathematician (died 1719) November 26 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist (died 1771) December 2 – Nicolaas Kruik (Cruquius), cartographer and meteorologist (died 1754) unknown – Pierre Fauchard, physician and "father of modern dentistry" (died 1761) Deaths November 28 – Willem Piso, physician and naturalist (born 1611) References Category:17th century in science Category:1670s in science