1680 in science

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The year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Botany
3 Physics
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References

Astronomy

November 14 NS - Great Comet of 1680 observed by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope.^[1]

Botany

Robert Morison publishes Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta, utilising his method of taxonomy.^[2]

Physics

July 8 - Robert Hooke observes the nodal patterns associated with the vibrations of glass plates.^[3]^[4]

Births

Deaths

February 17 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637)

References

^ Werner, James W. "The Great Comet of 1680". http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html. Retrieved 2006-02-05.
^ Oliver, Francis Wall (1913). "Robert Morison 1620–1683...". Makers of British Botany. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–16. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Makers_of_British_botany/Robert_Morison_1620%E2%80%941683_and_John_Ray_1627%E2%80%941705.
^ "Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni". Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/bluetelephone/html/chladni.html.
^ Oxford Dictionary of Scientists. Oxford University Press. 1999. p. 101.