1666 in science

none thumb | right | Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula (A New and Most Accurate Map of the World), 1666 1666 science 1666 The year 1666 in science and technology involved some significant events. Events December 22 – French Academy of Sciences first meets. Astronomy Publication of Stanisław Lubieniecki's Theatrum Cometicum begins in Amsterdam, the first encyclopedia and atlas of comets. Botany Establishment of Herrenhäuser Gärten, Hanover. Mathematics Isaac Newton develops differential calculus. Samuel Morland produces several designs of pocket calculating machine and also publishes A New Method of Cryptography.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 Physics Isaac Newton uses a prism to split sunlight into the component colours of the optical spectrum, assisting understanding of the nature of light. Robert Hooke and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli both expound gravitation as an attractive force (Hooke's lecture "On gravity" at the Royal Society of London on March 21; Borelli's Theoricae Mediceorum planetarum ex causis physicis deductae, published in Florence later in the year).239 Curtis Wilson 1989 The Newtonian achievement in astronomy Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics: 2A: Tycho Brahe to Newton Cambridge University Press Publications Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne, publishes Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, including an attack on Robert Hooke's Micrographia.James Fitzmaurice Cavendish, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (1623?–1673) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4940 2011-11-24 10.1093/ref:odnb/4940 Births December – Stephen Gray, English scientist (died 1736) Deaths Giovanni Battista Baliani, Genoese physicist (born 1582) Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (born 1587) References Category:17th century in science Category:1660s in science