1687 in science
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The year 1687 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- The constellation Triangulum Minus was named by Johannes Hevelius.
[edit] Physics
- July 5 - Isaac Newton's Principia (full title Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica) is published, in which Newton describes his theory of universal gravitation and explains the laws of mechanics. The concepts in the Principia become the foundations of modern physics.
[edit] Births
- October 14 - Robert Simson, mathematician (died 1768)
[edit] Deaths
- Johannes Hevelius, German astronomer (born 1611)
