1679 in science
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The year 1679 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany[]
- Establishment of Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam).
Mathematics[]
- Samuel Morland publishes The Doctrine of Interest, both Simple & Compound, probably the first tables produced with the aid of a calculating machine.[1]
Medicine[]
- Great Plague of Vienna.
- Franciscus Sylvius' Opera Medica, published posthumously, recognizes scrofula and phthisis as forms of tuberculosis.
Technology[]
- Pierre-Paul Riquet excavates Malpas Tunnel on the Canal du Midi in Hérault, France, Europe's first navigable canal tunnel (165 m, concrete lined).[2]
Publications[]
- Publication in Paris of the first of Edme Mariotte's Essays de physique: De la végétation des plantes, a pioneering discussion of plant physiology; and De la nature de l'air, a statement of Boyle's law.
- Publication by the Paris Observatory of the world's first national ephemeris almanac, the Connaissance des tems, compiled by Jean Picard.
Births[]
- January 2 - Pierre Fauchard, French physician (died 1761).[3]
- January 24 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (died 1754)
Deaths[]
- January 14 – Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (born 1602)
References[]
- ^ Dickinson, H. W. (1970). Sir Samuel Morland: diplomat and inventor 1625-1695. Cambridge: Heffer for the Newcomen Society. ISBN 0-85270-061-X.
- ^ Roland, Claudine (1997). The Canal du Midi. MSM. ISBN 2-909998-66-5.
- ^ Jean-François Vincent. "Fauchard, Pierre". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr (in French). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Université de Paris (Base biographique). Retrieved 2021-02-08.
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