1670 in science

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The year 1670 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Botany
2 Earth sciences
3 Technology
4 Births
5 Deaths

Botany

John Ray publishes Catalogus plantarum Angliæ, the basis of all later floras of England.

Earth sciences

Jean Picard calculates the radius of the Earth to within 0.44% of the modern value.
Agostino Scilla publishes La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso: lettera risponsiva circa i corpi marini, che petrificati si trovano in varii luoghi terrestri ("Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense") in Naples, arguing for an organic origin for fossils.

Technology

The first longcase clock is built in England by William Clement.

Births

February 25 - Maria Margarethe Kirch, astronomer (d. 1720).

Deaths

March 10 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
May 21 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)