1668 in science

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The year 1668 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Biology
3 Mathematics
4 Medicine
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 References

Astronomy

Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope.

Biology

Francesco Redi disproves theories of the spontaneous generation of maggots in putrefying matter.

Mathematics

Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an infinite series for the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment.

Medicine

François Mauriceau publishes Traité des Maladies des Femmes Grosses et Accouchées in Paris, a key text in scientific obstetrics.^[1]

Births

December 31 - Hermann Boerhaave, Dutch physician and chemist who makes Leiden a European centre of medical knowledge (d. 1738)

Deaths

References

^ Morton, Leslie T. (1943). A Medical Bibliography; a check-list of texts illustrating the history of the medical sciences. London: Grafton.