1679 in science

none 1679 science 1679 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.H. W. Dickinson Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor 1625-1695 https://archive.org/details/sirsamuelmorland0000dick registration Cambridge Heffer for the Newcomen Society 1970 0-85270-061-X Medicine Great Plague of Vienna. Franciscus Sylvius' Opera Medica, published posthumously, recognizes scrofula and phthisis as forms of tuberculosis. Technology Pierre-Paul Riquet excavates Malpas Tunnel on the Canal du Midi in Hérault, France, Europe's first navigable canal tunnel (165 m, concrete lined).Roland Claudine The Canal du Midi 1997 MSM 2-909998-66-5 Zoology thumb|Maria Sibylla Merian in 1679 Maria Sibylla Merian publishes the first part of Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung und sonderbare Blumennahrung ("The Caterpillars' Marvellous Transformation and Strange Floral Food"), comprising detailed illustrated descriptions of insect metamorphosis.Etheridge Kay The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian's Caterpillar Book 2020 Brill Publications Publication in Paris of the first of Edme Mariotte's Essays de physique: De la végétation des plantes, a pioneering discussion of plant physiology; and De la nature de l'air, a statement of Boyle's law. Publication by the Paris Observatory of the world's first national ephemeris almanac, the Connaissance des tems, compiled by Jean Picard. Births January 2 – Pierre Fauchard, French physician (died 1761).fr Jean-François Vincent Fauchard, Pierre Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Université de Paris (Base biographique) https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/biographies/index.php?cle=6108 2021-02-08 www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr January 24 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (died 1754) Deaths January 14 – Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (born 1602) References Category:17th century in science Category:1670s in science