1680 in science

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

Astronomy[]

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

English comparative anatomist Edward Tyson publishes Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess, dissected at Gresham Colledge, concluding that the porpoise is a mammal.
Robert Morison publishes , Pars Secunda, seu Herbarum Distributio Nova per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta, utilising his method of taxonomy.^[2]

Robert Boyle manufactures phosphorus in England and uses it to ignite sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of the match.^[3]

8 July – Robert Hooke observes the nodal patterns associated with the vibrations of glass plates.^[4]^[5]

17 February – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637)
22 March – François Cureau de La Chambre, French physician (born 1630)^[6]
Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (born 1610)

^ Werner, James W. "The Great Comet of 1680". Retrieved 5 February 2006.
^ Oliver, Francis Wall (1913). "Robert Morison 1620–1683...". Makers of British Botany. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–16. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
^ Baccini, Peter; Brunner, Paul H. (2012). Metabolism of the Anthroposphere. MIT Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0262300544.
^ "Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni". Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
^ Oxford Dictionary of Scientists. Oxford University Press. 1999. p. 101.
^ L'Anthropologie (in French). Masson. 1894. p. 270.