1678 in science

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The year 1678 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1677 in science, other events of 1678, 1679 in science and the list of years in science.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Physics 3 Zoology 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• Edmund Halley publishes a catalogue of 341 southern stars - the first systematic southern sky survey

[edit] Physics

• Christiaan Huygens publishes his Traité de la Lumière/Treatise on Light, which states his principle of wavefront sources
• Robert Hooke discovers the fundamental law of elasticity when he finds that the stress (force) exerted is proportional to the strain (elongation) produced

[edit] Zoology

• Publication of English Spiders by Martin Lister, the first book devoted to spiders.

[edit] Births

• July 16 — Jakob Hermann, mathematician (died 1733)
• November 26 — Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist (died 1771)
• October 27 — Pierre Raymond de Montmort, mathematician (died 1719)
• unknown — Pierre Fauchard, physician and "father of modern dentistry" (died 1761)

[edit] Deaths