1673 in science

none thumb | right | The Staffelwalze, or Stepped Reckoner, a digital calculating machine invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1673 and built around 1700, on display in the Technische Sammlungen museum in Dresden, Germany. 1673 science 1673 The year 1673 in science and technology involved some significant events. Mathematics John Kersey begins publication of The Elements of that Mathematical Art Commonly Called Algebra. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz rediscovers the arctangent series and obtains the Leibniz formula for π as the special case.Roy Ranjan Ranjan Roy 1990 The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha Mathematics Magazine 63 5 291–306 https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Allendoerfer/1991/0025570x.di021167.02p0073q.pdf 10.1080/0025570X.1990.11977541 2023-03-14 2024-03-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20230314224252/https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Allendoerfer/1991/0025570x.di021167.02p0073q.pdf dead Samuel Morland publishes A Perpetual Almanack and Several Useful Tables.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 Microbiology Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's observations with the microscope are first published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Physics Christiaan Huygens publishes his mathematical analysis of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum. Births August 10 – Johann Konrad Dippel, German theologian, alchemist and physician (died 1734) August 11 – Richard Mead, English physician (died 1754) Deaths May 6 – Werner Rolfinck, German scientist (born 1599) August 17 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist who discovered the ovarian follicles (born 1641) December 15 – Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (born 1623)Margaret Cavendish https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish The British Library 26 March 2019 26 March 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190326131844/https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish dead References Category:17th century in science Category:1670s in science